Blythburgh Holy Trinity
The A12’s bisection of Blythburgh could easily destroy any atmosphere this important village might retain. But walking down Church Road, a sense of expectation builds. Then the roar of traffic …
The A12’s bisection of Blythburgh could easily destroy any atmosphere this important village might retain. But walking down Church Road, a sense of expectation builds. Then the roar of traffic …
The flint round-towered churches of Suffolk are some of its most enigmatic and atmospheric. Sometimes remote and isolated, often hidden from view behind a screen of trees, these towers loom out …
At first glance, you might think St Mary’s at Lidgate is a fairly prosaic Suffolk parish church. Set back from the road at the end of a lane and accessed via …
Polstead is a lovely village close to the Suffolk / Essex border. It’s name means ‘place by the pool’, undoubtedly a reference to the large pond that sits at the …
Along a quiet lane in the Suffolk village of Troston lies St Mary’s church. And within can be found some of the county’s finest medieval wall paintings, if not England’s.
Entering through the …
Close to the beautiful village of Kersey is Lindsey chapel. It’s easy to miss, set back from the road along a quiet lane and amidst rolling countryside that resembles Devon more than …
Ickworth Park, in its own right, is one of Suffolk’s landscape wonders. Yet it also contains some of the finest ancient trees in the area.
The Tea Party Oak – so …
Is this the location of Edmund’s coronation? Along a deserted farm track, hidden amidst woodland and overlooking the Stour Valley, is the ancient thatched church of St Stephen, also known as Chapel Barn.
On …
Bury is the heart of the Kingdom of East Anglia, just as Edmund’s shrine was the heart of medieval Bury. Beyond the town, a symbolic landscape unfurls, linking Edmund the sacral king with his East Anglian dominion.
The secrets of Stanton’s hollow way.
Lying at the edge of Stanton lurks a deep and mysterious half-mile long trackway, linked in language to the Anglo-Saxon lairs of monsters, demons and man-eating …
The A12’s bisection of Blythburgh could easily destroy any atmosphere this important village might retain. But walking down Church Road, a sense of expectation builds. Then the roar of traffic …
A wodewose (derived from the Old English wudu – wood or forest) is a ‘wild man’; a hairy forest-dwelling embodiment of nature, closely linked in its symbolism to the green …
The flint round-towered churches of Suffolk are some of its most enigmatic and atmospheric. Sometimes remote and isolated, often hidden from view behind a screen of trees, these towers loom out …