A small village on the River Alde close to Aldeburgh, Snape is best-known for the nearby Maltings, an arts and shopping complex with Concert Hall that hosts the annual Aldeburgh Music Festival, created by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Snape Maltings also hosts the annual Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival.
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There has been human habitation at Snape for some 2,000 years though the original village stood on higher ground, around the present church. The Romans established a settlement here, centred on salt production.
In Anglo-Saxon times the Wuffingas, who ruled East Anglia from Rendlesham, used Snape largely as a burial site, and archaeological investigations have revealed ship burials and other graves.
One of the finest Suffolk walks you can take is along the Sailor’s Path, between Snape and Aldeburgh, a six-mile gentle leg-stretcher that wends its way through the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
You can also walk from the Maltings to Iken Church along the shoreline.
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