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Take time to explore the numerous footpaths, trails and country
parks and then spend evenings in cosy country inns offering home-cooked
food.
The surrounding countryside boasts traditional villages with vineyards,
mills, stately homes and a uniquely reconstructed Anglo-Saxon settlement
together with an interpretation centre including archaeological
finds from the area and a collections study building at West Stow.
West Suffolk’s hidden villages situated in the ever changing
colour of the countryside are one of the great glories of this part
of England. Travel on any country road and you will come across
delightful places like Clare - Suffolk’s smallest town with
its Gothic church, The Ancient House Museum, and Suffolk’s
oldest public country park.
Next door to Clare you will find Cavendish with its traditional
village green surrounded by chocolate box cottages and traditional
old English inns. Returning back towards Bury St Edmunds you will
pass Ickworth House, a huge magnificent Georgian house, with a towering
central Rotunda. Explore the idyllic pleasure grounds, gardens and
woods or sample an afternoon tea in their excellent National Trust
restaurant.
Travel north from Bury St Edmunds and you will find yourself transported
into ‘mills country’. Follow the ‘Millers Trail’
and discover Pakenham Watermill and the windmills of Thelnetham,
Bardwell and Stanton. Quiet country roads suitable for cycling and
walking, here you can enjoy the freedom of the great outdoors at
its best!
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