Helmingham Hall is a wonderful example of a Tudor hall surrounded by an amazingly wide moat. Today the ancient house is the home of the Tollemache family and in following with a long tradition, a drawbridge is still pulled up...

This museum celebrates a great tradition of mechanical music. This is something that sadly you hardly see anywhere anymore, but the organ grinder would have once been a much more commonplace fixture of festivals and celebrations in this country....

Known affectionately as ’The Middy’ the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway was one of those railways built during the latter days of the great railway age. Featuring a fully restored Mendlesham Station building, it is attempting to recreate the typical sleepy country...

The Museum of East Anglian Life is housed on a seventy-five acre site of beautiful farmland. There is over three kilometres of woodland and riverside nature trails to be explored. Visitors are treated to a variety of exhibitions...

Stonham Barns is located on the A1120 at Stonham Aspal, half way between Stowmarket and Framlingham in the heart of Suffolk countryside and is a leisure, shopping and rural pursuits complex. Admission to the main complex and car parking is...

The Suffolk Owl Sanctuary is situated at Stonham Barns in Suffolk next to the Redwings Horse Sanctuary Rescue Centre. It offers a variety of attractions including flying displays of many different owls and raptors daily. Outside there are over 60...

The Teapot Pottery was set up in the beautiful village of Debenham, set deep in the Suffolk countryside, over twenty years ago. Today the pottery only designs and makes collectable teapots, each one being carefully cast and painted by hand,...

Founded in 1728, Aspall Cyder has a long established tradition of producing quality cyder, vinegar and apple juice. This small rural producer can be found on the original site of its cyder house and press at Aspall Hall just outside...

We breed rare cattle, sheep, pygmy goats, alpacas, poultry and pigs, including Maori pigs called Kune Kunes. Today’s children lack close contact with animals and Baylham House Farm aims to rectify this deficiency. School parties are very welcome. The farm...

Bonny Wood is a beautiful and restful woodland found a few miles outside of Needham Market in Suffolk. It is an ancient coppice woodland environment that has been used and managed for hundreds of years, but in recent years has...

Framsden Windmill cannot be missed when driving through the small sleepy village of Framsden in deepest Suffolk with its pretty country cottages. It is a Tale post mill dating from 1760 that still has intact machinery, restored in the 1960s....

Hadleigh Guildhall complex is situated next to St Mary’s churchyard and is some six hundred years old. Over the years it has had many uses from market house and Guildhall all the way to a cloth hall and even a...

Kersey Mill and Malting is situated besides the River Brett in rural Suffolk about a mile from the small picturesque village of Kersey. The mill was built in about 1820 and mentioned in the Doomsday Book. Up until 1929 the...

Lavenham is the most unspoiled medieval town in the country, and the magnificent timber-framed Guildhall building with its jettied upper floor and oriel windows dominates the market place. Built by Corpus Christi, one of three guilds founded in Lavenham to...

Needham Lake is situated just off Coddenham Road on the edge of Needham Market and is well sign posted off the main A14 Ipswich to Newmarket road. The lake is a flooded former gravel pit that is now home to...

The present Sproughton Water Mill dates form about 1820 after being rebuilt by millwright Sir William Cubitt. Then the flour mill had four pairs of grinding stones and also a "dwelling house" together with a 7ft fall. As a flour...

Thornham Walks are situated hidden in the Suffolk countryside just off the A140 near Eye. Located on the Thornham estate, there are 12 miles of waymarked footpaths to explore through beautiful countryside, which includes ancient parkland, woodland, farmland and water...