Browsing local attractions within 8 miles of Long Shop Museum

Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5BP, (4 miles, 6kms)

Sudbourne, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 2HA, (6 miles, 10kms), Tel: 01473 890089, Email, www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org

An extraordinary, open, cury weed, with roaming fallow deer and great expanses of bluebells.

48 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5AB, (4 miles, 6kms), Tel: 01728 453637, www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk

St James's Street, Dunwich, Suffolk, IP17 3DT, (6 miles, 10kms), Tel: 01728 648796, www.dunwichmuseum.org.uk

A museum showing the history of Dunwich from Roman times, chronicling its disappearance into the sea and local wildlife.

Snape, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17, (4 miles, 7kms), Tel: 01473 890089, Email, www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org

A rich mix of wetland habitat, including grazing marsh, reedbed, scrub and wet woodland. Otter have been spotted at the reserve.

Wenhaston, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 9HD, (8 miles, 12kms), Tel: 01502 478258, Email, www.woottensplants.co.uk

Woottens is a specialist plant nursery, and are experts in Auriculas, Bearded Iris Grasses, Hemerocallis and Pelargoniums. We also grow the largest general range of sun and shade loving Herbaceous Perennials in Suffolk.

Gallery 2, The Town Hall Galleries, Cornhill, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1DH, (4 miles, 6kms), Tel: 01473 432865, Email, www.suffolkcraftsociety.org

The Suffolk Craft Society's Gallery 2 showcases a diverse selection of contemporary designer crafts, all made entirely by professional crafts people in Suffolk, and all for sale!

Main Street, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4ES, (0.0 miles, 0.0kms), Tel: 01728 832189, Email, www.longshopmuseum.co.uk

Award-winning museum, Grade II listed Long Shop. Leiston's unique history and home of the Garrett collection. First production line to the 1st woman doctor.

15 The Terrace, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5HJ, (4 miles, 6kms)

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Brick Kiln Barn, Sibton, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 2NE, (6 miles, 10kms), Tel: 01728 621380, Email

Unique cookery courses and food events that go further than the traditional cookery school, giving you this opportunity to see the origins of really great food.

Snape, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1SR, (4 miles, 7kms), Tel: 01728 688303, Email, www.snapemaltings.co.uk

Victorian Maltings buildings nestled alongside the River Alde, with shops, galleries, restaurants, river trips, farmers markets and world famous concert hall.

The Orford Craft Shop, Orford, Suffolk, IP12 2LN, (8 miles, 13kms), Tel: 01394 450678

Exhibits show progress in the underwater exploration of the former city and underwater studies off the Suffolk coast. Attraction is not suitable for small children. Data on coastal erosion.

Leiston, Suffolk, IP17 3BY, (1 miles, 2kms), Tel: 01223 582700, Email, www.english-heritage.org.uk

One of Suffolk's most impressive monastic ruins of a 14th century abbey of Premonstratensian white commons!

C/O RSPB Minsmere Nature Reserve, Westleton, Suffolk, IP17 3BY, (2 miles, 4kms), Tel: 01728 648281, Email, www.rspb.org.uk/northwarren

This delightful nature reserve is superb for wildfowl in winter, butterflies and dragonflies in summer, and breeding marsh harriers, nightingales and bitterns.

The Moot Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5DS, (4 miles, 6kms), Tel: 01728 454666, Email, www.aldeburghmuseum.org.uk

A 16thC listed ancient building with a museum displaying items of local interest including artefacts of local history including Anglo-Saxon Snape cemetery finds.

Golf Lane, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5PZ, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: 01728 452615, Email, www.brittenpears.org

The Red House was the home of the composer Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears.

Orford Quay, Orford, Suffolk, IP12 2LX, (8 miles, 13kms), Tel: 07831 698298, Email, www.lady-florence.co.uk/home.htm

River Cruise Restaurant, cruising Rivers Alde and Ore with American-style brunch, lunch, dinner or champagne sunset. Cruises past Aldeburgh, National Trust's Orford Ness.

Dunwich, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 3DJ, (4 miles, 6kms), Tel: 01728 648501, Email, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dunwichheath

Remnant of the once extensive Sandling Heaths and one of Suffolk's most important nature conservation areas. Many excellent walks and access to beach.

Dunwich Road, Dunwich, Suffolk, IP17 3DB, (5 miles, 9kms), Tel: 01473 890089, Email, www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org

Our newest living landscape, this is a project to credit 640 acres of grazed woodland habitat from existing conifer plantation.

Park Road, Benhall, Suffolk, IP17 1JB, (5 miles, 7kms), Tel: 01728 602510, Email, www.thewalledgarden.co.uk

A retail nursery and garden selling almost 1,500 varieties of plants nestles in the warmth of the high wall of an old kitchen garden.

Thorpeness, Suffolk, IP16 4NQ, (3 miles, 4kms), Tel: 0845 606 6067

A working windmill housing displays on the Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Thorpeness village and information on the workings of the mill.

Westleton, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 3BY, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: 01728 648281, Email, www.rspb.org.uk/minsmere

Discover the incredible variety of wildlife present on the beautiful Suffolk coast as you explore a network of paths through woods, wetlands and heaths. There’s something for everyone, whenever you visit.

c/o Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Bridge, Saxmundham, IP17 1SP, (5 miles, 7kms), Tel: 01728 687100, Email, www.aldeburgh.co.uk

Founded by Benjamin Britten, Aldeburgh is home to a year round performance programme at world famous Snape Maltings Concert Hall, and much more.

Sizewell, Leiston, Suffolk, UK, (1 miles, 2kms), Tel: 01473 890089, Email, www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org

Marsh, reedbed and wet woodland with adjacent heathland and beach, this diverse site has just about everything.

175 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5AN, (4 miles, 6kms), Tel: 01728 453 743

Parham Airfield, Parham, Suffolk, IP13 9AF, (8 miles, 12kms), www.parhamairfieldmuseum.co.uk

A museum housed in the original control tower with a refreshment/sales hut and a separate building housing a museum to the British Resistance Organisation plus OB.