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Aldeburgh tourist and travel information |
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 Aldeburgh is in the county of Suffolk,
an unspoilt and charming town with a beautiful shingle beach. |
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Aldeburgh
- Travel by coach - If you'd like to speak
to someone about your journey you can ring Traveline on 0871
200 22 33 |
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Aldeburgh
- nearby station - Travel by train - Saxmundham Station,
Station Approach, SAXMUNDHAM, Suffolk, IP17 1BW. CCTV. Ticket
office. Waiting room. Refreshment facilities. Pay phone. Shops.
Toilets. Wheelchair accessible toilets. Whole station step free
access. Wheelchairs available. Aldeburgh is about 7 miles from SAXMUNDHAM. |
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Aldeburgh
- Travel by road - Aldeburgh is on the
A 1094.
A nearby large town is Woodbridge. Aldeburgh is about 110 miles
from LONDON. |
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Aldeburgh is approximately 20 miles
from Ipswich and 25 miles from Lowestoft. |
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Aldeburgh
- Sport - Aldeburgh Golf Club, Aldeburgh,
Suffolk, IP15 5PE. Tel: 01728 453309. |
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Aldeburgh
- Shopping - Lloyds Pharmacy, Leiston
Tel: 01728 830545. Barclays Bank PLC, Leiston Tel: 0845-755 5555.
Post Office, Aldeburgh Tel: 01728 452755. |
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Aldeburgh
- Entertainment and attractions - Snape
Maltings is a unique collection of granaries and malthouses nestling
beside the River Alde. Shops, galleries and restaurants fill
the old buildings where local barley was once malted for the
brewing industry. The present owners, the Gooderham family, bought
the Maltings in the 1960s and set about its gradual restoration
and rejuvenation. In 1967 Snape Maltings Concert Hall was opened
as a venue for the Aldeburgh Festival, the brainchild of composer
Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears. |
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Aldeburgh
- Other information - "Three Suffolk
Towers" 1958 - by John Piper (1903-1992) - Ink, watercolour
and gouache on paper (Photo left). The three churches, all built
with flint, are at Laxfield, Walberswick and Stoke-by-Nayland.
Piper drew them while staying nearby at Aldeburgh, rehearsing
a Monteverdi opera he had designed for the Aldeburgh Festival. |
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Aldeburgh
- Other information - The Moot
Hall is the town's oldest building, built of a mixture of
red brick, flint and timber in 1500. |
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Aldeburgh
- Other information - A sculpture of a
scallop shell commemorating the life of composer Benjamin Britten
on the beach at Aldeburgh (Right). Sculptor Maggi Hambling said
the 12-foot (3.7-meter) steel scallop shell on Aldeburgh's windswept
beach is a fitting tribute to the composer of the operas "Peter
Grimes" and "Billy Budd," who lived in the town
and loved its rugged North Sea coast. |
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Ferries indicated are Felixstowe and Harwich.
Airports indicated are Norwich and Stansted. Aldeburgh is on the A1094. |
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Attractions (see details below)
Rail Stations (Not all stations shown). There
is no station in Aldeburgh. |
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 For hotels accommodation in other areas nearby see
Beccles hotels & Ipswich
hotels. |
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- Newmarket Racecourse, Westfield House, The Links, Newmarket,
Suffolk, CB8 0TG. Tel: 01638 675 500. newmarketracecourses.co.uk
- Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, The Cathedral
Office, Abbey House, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33
1LS. Tel: 01284 754933. stedscathedral.co.uk
- Sutton Hoo, Tranmer House, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DJ. Tel:
01394 389700
- Snape Maltings, Nr.
Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1SR. Tel: 01728 688303/5
- Suffolk Wildlife Park, Kessingland, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33
7TF. Tel: 01502 740291