Gallery Thea is a ceramics studio and shop. Here, Thea Cutting hand makes ceramics for customers, both local and worldwide. Specialities include gifts for special occasions, such as births, birthdays, engagements, anniversaries and weddings. For weddings, there are invites, table...

Walberwick National Nature Reserve is one of the most diverse in the UK. Here, plant life ranges from the acid-loving fenugreek and mossy stonecrop to the wetland-loving Marsh Sower-thistle, Bog Pimpernel and Sneezewort. Wildlife is just as abundant, with otters,...

St Andrew's Church is half church and half ruin. Both date back to 1493 when the parish was rich and the church large, but in 1538 the parish lost its tithes and the new church fell into decay. Eventually, in...

Walberswick was once a busy port. Today, it is a popular seaside village, with a long tradition of attracting artists, writers and intellectuals. Among them, P H Emerson, Walter Osborne, Philip Wilson Steer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The village green...

In this little white weather-boarded heritage centre, visitors can find out all about Walberswick, its history and its surroundings, with the help of local maps, photographs and also films. Among them, a Wild Coast and Ancient Heaths film, which covers...

This is the only amber museum in Britain, receiving over 70,000 visitors a year. Exhibits include artifacts, carvings, jewellery and objets d’art, both antique and modern, as well as large pieces of Amber found on the English coast. The heaviest...

Nine metres long and equipped with two 2500cc V6 engines, Southwold's Coastal Voyager offers trips ranging from short high-speed Sea Blasts around Sole Bay to peaceful cruises up the Blythe Estuary or to the seals at Scroby Sands. Trip highlights...

Run by the Southwold Film Society, this cinema offers a programme of classic films, old and new. It's named after Southwold’s first cinema, which used to stand near here in York Road. This cinema follows the design of the original,...

Before the great Southwold fire of 1659, there were buildings on gun hill. Later, probably in 1746, the six 18 pound Tudor guns seen today were put in place. The Royal Armouries apparently gave the guns to the town to...

Southwold's famous greens bring light and fine views to every corner of the town. South Green is probably the best. It rolls gently down to the seafront past some of the town's most impressive period houses. The greens have been...

Southwold Harbour probably isn't quite as busy today as it was in the 11th Century when, according to the Domesday Book, it was a prosperous port. The area is very popular in the summer though, and visitors can still eat...

Southwold Lifeboat Station was built in 1993 right next to the Harbour entrance. Here, the lifeboat, Leslie Tranmer, is housed. This new Atlantic-75 lifeboat was put into service in 1998, but Southwold’s first lifeboat was launched in 1841 from Southwold’s...

After Norfolk, Suffolk has more town signs than any other county in England. This one at Southwold represents the Battle of Sole Bay, fought just off the coast here in 1672. Southwold goes back even further though. The town's charter...

This award-winning rural beach is clean, quiet and secluded. To the south is the mouth of the River Blyth, to the north, Southwold itself and to the west, The Denes. Popular with walkers, these sand dunes are a rare habitat...

By road, the seaside village of Walberswick is about 20 minutes from Southwold Harbour. By foot-ferry, the journey takes just a few. The road route has to go all the way around the Blythe Estuary, while the foot ferry, really...