Around & About

East Anglia has a wealth of varied attractions to suit any requirements. All within easy reach of your base at Moat Hill Farmhouse & include the historic cities of Norwich & Cambridge, the County towns of Ipswich, Newmarket and Bury St. Edmunds, (East Anglia's floral town famous for its Abbey gardens & the Cathedral's new millennium tower). The stunning Suffolk Heritage Coastline with the attractive towns of Southwold, Aldburgh and Orford is a pleasant car journey away. For those with stamina, London is just 75 minutes by direct train from our local town of Stowmarket.

 

Whether it is ancient and historic castles, houses or churches, the RSPB reserve at Minsmere, Saxon treasures at Sutton Hoo, Constable Country at Dedham Vale, antique hunting in "Lovejoy's" Long Melford or just simply appreciating the pastoral scenery, pretty villages and taking long lunches in character pubs, you are sure to find much to do and to enjoy.

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After suffering failing health for some years Mary Tudor, (Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk and sister to King Henry VIII), died on 25 June, 1533 at the age of thirty eight at Westhorpe Hall, possibly of cancer. Her body was interred at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries her body was translated to nearby St. Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds. Her grave was disturbed in 1784, during alterations to the church, when her coffin was opened and quantities of red-gold hair were discovered.