Suffolk

Historic County of England.

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Suffolk

• Administrative centre Ipswich
• County Flower - Oxlip
• People from Suffolk are called - ?
• The county Motto is Opus Nostrum Dirige - "Direct or Work"
• Famous for:

• Flatford Mill - featured in many of Constable's paintings
  

• Landmarks and Places of Interest

Suffolk is a ceremonial county of historic origin in the East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east.

The name Suffolk is of Anglo-Saxon origon meaning "Southern People" to distinguish them from the "Northfolk". It was first recorded in 895 as Suth Folchi.

The county is low-lying with very few hills, and is largely arable land with the wetlands of The Broads in the North. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

West Suffolk is renowned for archaeological finds from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the area between Mildenhall and West Row, in Eriswell and in Lakenheath. Many bronze objects, such as swords, spearheads, arrows, axes, palstaves, knives, daggers, rapiers, armour, decorative equipment (in particular for horses) and fragments of sheet bronze, are entrusted to St Edmundsbury heritage service, housed at West Stow just outside Bury St Edmunds. Other finds include traces of cremations and barrows.

In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre.

The majority of agriculture in Suffolk is either arable or mixed. Soil types vary from heavy clays through to light sands. Crops grown include winter wheat, winter barley, sugar beet, oilseed rape, winter and spring beans and linseed, although smaller areas of rye and oats can be found in lighter areas along with a variety of vegetables.

Much of Suffolk is low-lying, founded on Pleistocene sand and clays. These rocks are relatively unresistant and the coast is eroding rapidly. Coastal defences have been used to protect several towns, but several cliff-top houses have been lost to coastal erosion in the past, and others are under threat. The continuing protection of the coastline and the estuaries, including the Blyth, Alde and Deben, has been, and remains, a matter of considerable discussion.

The coastal strip to the East contains an area of heathland known as "The Sandlings" which runs almost the full length of the coastline. Suffolk is also home to nature reserves, such as the Trimley Marshes, a wetland under the protection of Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

The west of the county lies on more resistant Cretaceous Chalk. This chalk is the north-eastern extreme of the Southern England Chalk Formation that stretches from Dorset in the south west to Dover in the south east. The Chalk is less easily eroded so forms the only significant hills in the county. The highest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the highest point of the Newmarket Ridge, near the village of Rede which reaches 128 m (420 ft).

The Districts of Suffolk

1. Ipswich
2. Suffolk Coastal
3. Waveney
4. Mid Suffolk
5. Babergh
6. St Edmundsbury
7. Forest Heath

Towns in Suffolk

• Aldeburgh
• Bury St Edmunds
• Felixstowe, one of the largest container ports in Europe.
• Framlingham
• Gorleston
• Haverhill
• Lavenham
• Long Melford
• Lowestoft
• Newmarket
• Woodbridge

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