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Suffolk is one of the few English Counties whose
boundaries were left almost unchanged by local authority legislation of the 1960s
and 1970s. A large (and beautiful) County, famous for its "Suffolk
Punch" heavy horses and the independence of its denizens.
The County Town is Ipswich, a large and busy place full of interest. At the two ends of the County, on the east
coast are the fishing ports of Lowestoft and Felixstowe, with much coastal
erosion between them, where the sea has swallowed what used to be an
important town at Dunwich. Inland
lies Bury St Edmunds, once one of the most important cities in England, and
further west is the famous horseracing town of Newmarket, on a sort of little
peninsula of Suffolk that sticks out into Cambridgeshire.
Much the greater part of the County is rural with quiet villages and leafy
lanes. The boundary with Norfolk, the
next County to the north, runs along the River Waveney, with much boating
activity – it is on the edge of the Broads – centred around Beccles.
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