The largest vegetated shingle spit in Europe, cut off from the mainland by the River Alde, where secret military research took place for most of the 20th century, from radar to atomic bomb testing. The strange, pagoda-like test buildings still stand on the shingle among rare plants and nesting birds.
The ferry crosses from Orford Quay; check the National Trust's open days before you go, as it isn't open every day.
The Anglo-Saxon royal burial ground where, in 1939, a great ship burial was found under a mound, full of treasures, among them a magnificent iron hel…
An eccentric Italianate house with a huge central rotunda, built by the 4th Earl of Bristol, also the Bishop of Derry, to hold the art he collected o…
A Jacobean house of red brick framed by yew hedges, said to stand on the site of the home of Anne Boleyn's family, and to be visited by her ghost eve…
A moated manor house built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld family, who still live here.
One of Europe's most important wetlands and the National Trust's oldest nature reserve, bought in 1899.
A Jacobean house on the site of an Augustinian priory, filled with the art collection of Lord Fairhaven, who also laid out the large gardens with ave…
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