Counties of the UK: Suffolk

  

This is the next instalment of my bi-monthly feature going through the Counties of the UK in alphabetical order to check out things of interest.  I hope you enjoy it

 

Location – a coastal county just below Norfolk.

 

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County seat – Ipswich (there is another Ipswich in Queensland, Australia)

 

Flower –Oxlip

 

Signature foods – Suffolk Black Bacon, Damson Jam, Fisher's Gin

 

Famous places to visit – Ickworth House, Suffolk pink cottages, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Orford Ness Lighthouse, Melford Hall (Beatrix Potter), Framlingham Castle, Newmarket Racecourse

 

 

Famous people from Suffolk – Gainsborough, Constable, Benjamin Britten, Bernie Ecclestone (car racing), Cardinal Wolsey, Millicent Fawcett (suffragette)

 

Go to this Pinboard to see the Counties of the UK