Blythburgh, Suffolk - Angel, Holy Trinity Church - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Angel 1, Holy Trinity, Blythburgh Church, Suffolk
• Publisher:  Stephen Wolfenden Photography
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Blythburgh is a small English village in an area known as the Sandlings, part of the Suffolk heritage coast. Located close to an area of flooded marshland and mud-flats, in 2007 its population was estimated to be 300.^[1] Blythburgh is best known for its church, Holy Trinity, internationally known as the Cathedral of the Marshes, which is a regular venue for the summer Aldeburgh Festival. The church has been flood-lit since the 1960s and is a landmark for travels on the arterial road to Norfolk.

Close to the village is the site of the Battle of Bulcamp (c. 653).

milestone in the village shows it is thirty miles from Ipswich, and twenty-four miles south of Great Yarmouth, and is divided by the London trunk road.

The village is noteworthy for its huge area of flooded marshes which lead to the estuary of the River Blyth, the river flows from west of Halesworth to the North Sea between Southwold and Walberswick. Originally the river joined the sea at Dunwich (one of Parliament's rotten boroughs. Southwold is reached by the A1095, which crosses a causeway near Reydon. The causeway is claimed to have been built by the family of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, passing over Wolsey Creek, using Wolsey Bridge with views over the adjacent Hen Reedbeds bird reserve.

Following the North Sea Flood of 1953 along the east coast the river banks were not repaired which created a large tidal lagoon. The surrounding reed-beds are the haunt of Bittern and Marsh Harrier, the mud-flats are feeding grounds for Shelduck, Avocet and Curlew.

Standing beside the main road to Lowestoft (England's most easterly point), the White Hart Inn owned by Adnams the local brewer, is known for its Dutch gable ends to the building and beamed interior, which is claimed to have been the court-house for this prosperous town in the middle-ages.

Bulcamp later had an infamous workhouse and lies adjacent to Henham Park, the home of the Rous family and site of the annual Latitude Festival. The majority of the land to the south of the village is owned by the Blois family from Cockfield Hall.

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., eldest brother of US President John F. Kennedy, was killed when his aircraft crashed a mile south of the village during World War II.

Approaching Blythburgh from Darsham, the nearest railway station and the only level-crossing on the A12 road, travellers pass Toby's Walks Picnic Site on the common. The site is named after a young man who was hanged nearby and is reputed to haunt the area. Adjacent to the picnic area is an attractive site of free range pigs,^[2] which are highly prized by major supermarket chains and quality restaurants.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=suffolk

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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