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In the West Suffolk Countryside
Take time to explore the numerous footpaths, trails and country parks and then spend evening 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.

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!