Haverhill Haverhill is a market town and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. Leiston Leiston is an English town in the East Suffolk non-metropolitan district of Suffolk, near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh , about 2 miles from the North Sea coast, 21 miles north-east of Ipswich and 90 miles north-east of London.
Halesworth Halesworth is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the northeastern corner of Suffolk, England. Eye Eye is a market town and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk, about 4 miles south of Diss , Mildenhall Mildenhall is a market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Boxford Boxford is a large village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England.
Orford Orford is a village on the Suffolk coast. It has a fine mediaeval castle, built to dominate the River Ore, and a Grade I listed parish church, St Bartholomew's. Lavenham Lavenham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Debenham Debenham is an attractive village in Suffolk. In pre-industrial England, wealth came from farming, especially from sheep and wool-processing.
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The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich ; other important towns include Lowestoft , Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe , one of the largest container ports in Europe. The county is low-lying with very few hills, and is largely arable land with the wetlands of The Broads in the North.
By the 5th century the Angles, after whom East Anglia and England itself are named, had established control of the region and later became the "north folk" and the "south folk", hence, "Norfolk" and "Suffolk". Suffolk, and several adjacent areas, became the kingdom of East Anglia , which was settled by the Angles in the 5th century AD, later merging with Mercia and then Wessex.
Suffolk was divided into separate Quarter Sessions divisions. These were originally four in number, reduced to two in , the eastern division being administered from Ipswich and the western from Bury St Edmunds.
The two divisions were made separate administrative counties as East Suffolk and West Suffolk under the Local Government Act , with Ipswich becoming a county borough. Edmundsbury , Suffolk Coastal , and Waveney.
This Act also transferred some land near Great Yarmouth to Norfolk. As introduced in Parliament, the Local Government Bill would have transferred Newmarket and Haverhill to Cambridgeshire, but Colchester would have been transferred in from Essex ; but those changes were not included in Act as passed. Beginning in February , the Boundary Committee again reviewed local government in the county, with two possible options emerging. Other finds include traces of cremations and barrows.
The majority of agriculture in Suffolk is either arable or mixed. Farm sizes vary from anything around 80 acres 32 hectares to over 8, 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.
The continuing importance of agriculture in the county is reflected in the Suffolk Show , which is held annually in May at Ipswich. Although latterly somewhat changed in nature, this remains primarily an agricultural show.
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Suffolk at current basic prices published pp. Birds Eye have their largest UK factory in Lowestoft, where all their meat products and frozen vegetables come from. The UK horse racing industry is based in Newmarket. Sizewell B nuclear power station is at Sizewell on the coast near Leiston. Bernard Matthews Farms have some processing units in the county, specifically Holton.
Southwold is the home of Adnams Brewery. The Port of Felixstowe is the largest container port in the United Kingdom. BT has its main research and development facility at Martlesham Heath. 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. 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 m ft. The county flower of the county of Suffolk is the oxlip [11]. The Census Suffolk recorded a population of , The population growth is due largely to migration rather than natural increase.
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