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Thank you for picking up the Stowmarket Town Guide. Whether you're
a tourist, a local resident or you happen to work in Stowmarket,
this guide will provide you with a great deal of useful information
about our wonderful town.
Stowmarket is conveniently located on the A14 between Ipswich and
Bury St Edmunds. It has excellent rail links to London Liverpool
Street, Cambridge and Norwich. It provides an excellent base for
touring the beautiful countryside, coast and attractions of Suffolk.
The town has become a very popular place to live in recent years
and is one of the fastest growing market towns in the country. It
has a population in the region of 19,000 which is set to grow further
with new housing being built on the fringes of the town. There are
also plans underway to develop the town centre in order to attract
larger retailers. This will increase the diversity of the town centre
and complement the market which is held on Thursdays and Saturdays.
There are substantial improvements being made to the town’s
leisure and cultural amenities including “The Museum of East
Anglian Life” which is a “must see” for any visitor
and major grant funding secured to support the development of the
“John Peel Centre for Creative Arts” in honour of the
famous radio DJ who lived just outside Stowmarket. Particularly
worth a visit is the Stowmarket Festival which takes place between
late May and early June each year. The centrepiece of the festival
is “StowFest”, the excellent 2-day musical extravaganza
at Chilton Fields.
I sincerely hope that you enjoy your stay here - be that for a short
break, a holiday or even longer!
David Blackburn Town Clerk
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