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Laurence Mitchell
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Category Archives: Suffolk
To the Lighthouse
They are taking the lighthouse down. It was really just a matter of time. Time and tide, it is said, wait for no man, and the two make for a powerful combination on this rapidly changing shoreline. The Orford lighthouse … Continue reading
Posted in History, Suffolk, Uncategorized
Tagged cooling towers, lighthouse, Mostar, Orford Ness, psychogeography, Sheffield, Syria, W G Sebald
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Blyth Spirit
Back in April I took part in a writing workshop in Suffolk led by Ivor Murrell of Suffolk Poetry Society and Melinda Appleby of Waveney & Blyth Arts. The workshop encouraged the participants to immerse themselves in the sights, sounds … Continue reading
The Minster in The Saints
The Saints is a small, loosely defined area of northeast Suffolk just south of the River Waveney and the Norfolk border. Effectively it is a fairly unremarkable patch of arable countryside that contains within it a baker’s dozen of small … Continue reading
Posted in History, Suffolk, Travel, wildlife
Tagged Anglo-Saxons, churches, genius loci, Romans, sense of place, South Elmham, The Saints, woods
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Lammas Day, Suffolk Coast
Lammas Day – the first day of August. School holidays, warm weather, beach visits, perhaps a swim in the sea? Or, on a windy cloudy day, a walk; a beach walk. At low to mid tide it is possible to … Continue reading
Posted in Suffolk, Travel, Walking, wildlife
Tagged coastal erosion, flora, Kessingland, North Sea, southwold, W G Sebald
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At Covehithe
The day before the autumn equinox: the setting, the beach at Covehithe. We have gathered here at the north Suffolk coast to walk and talk. A literary walk to celebrate W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, no less, organised … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Suffolk, Walking
Tagged coastal erosion, Covehithe, medieval church, psychogeography, Rings of Saturn, southwold, Suffolk Coast Path, W G Sebald
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Mildred Holland’s Seven-year Task
Mildred Holland was an unusual and determined woman. Not content with being merely the new rector’s wife at St Mary’s, the parish church at Huntingfield in northeast Suffolk, Mildred took it on herself to singlehandedly repaint the ceiling of the church’s hammerbeam roof. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Suffolk, Travel
Tagged Bradt, hammerbeam roof, Huntingfield, medieval church, Mildred Holland, Slow Travel Suffolk
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Orford Ness
Walking, whether rambling or hiking in the countryside, or the unplanned urban exploration of a would-be flâneur’s dérive – call it what you will – seems to be the hippest new literary genre. Often found cosily in tandem with what can only be described … Continue reading
Suffolk Coast Walks 2
Just to update the previous post – Nick Marsh, countryside officer at Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, went on BBC Radio Suffolk a couple of days ago to talk about my new Cicerone guide and the walking potential that the Suffolk coastal region offers. You can listen … Continue reading
Posted in Suffolk, Walking
Tagged Cicerone, long-distance walks, sandlings, Stour & Orwell Walk, Suffolk Coast Path
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Suffolk Coast Walks
If I might be allowed a little shameless self-publicity, my new book Suffolk Coast and Heaths Walks: Three Long-distance Routes in the AONB is published today by Cicerone. A bit of a mouthful, I know – let’s just call it ‘Suffolk … Continue reading
Posted in Suffolk, Travel, Walking
Tagged Cicerone, long-distance walks, Suffolk, Suffolk Coast Path
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Elveden – Gateway to the Land of Nod
So why Elveden? And why east of it? Obviously there’s the name itself – E(lve)den, close enough to Eden for a cheesy pun – and let us remember that in Biblical terms the territory that lies ‘on the east’ of Eden … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk, Suffolk, Uncategorized
Tagged East Anglia, elveden, film locations, thetford, Waveney valley
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