Suffolk - WHAT TO DO

Minsmere RSPB on the outskirts of Dunwich, South of Southwold

This is an important Sea marsh bird sanctuary and is surrounded by large tracts of wonderful heathland reaching straight to the sea.

Adults £5, Children £1.50, Concessions £3.
RSPB Members go FREE

Dunwich has a great pub and a marvelous beach fish n' chips place, A great day out and just 50 mins drive from The Grove Cottages

www.grove-cottages.co.uk - 50 mins

Thetford Forest : forest tours from High Lodge Forest Centre - bicycle hire, high ropes course 01842 810 271 - 40 mins
Further details, visit 'things to see & do' at www.explorethetford.co.uk

RSPB Thorpeness - 50 mins

RSPB Orford Ness - 45 mins This is the largest vegetated shingle spit in Europe, containing a variety of habitats including shingle, salt marsh, mudflat, brackish lagoons and grazing marsh. It is an important location for breeding and passage birds as well as for the shingle flora, which includes a large number of nationally rare species. The Ness was a secret military site from 1913 until the mid 1980s. Visitors follow a 5ml route, which can be walked in total or in part (the full walk involves walking on shingle). Other walks are open seasonally

Note: Access around the site is on foot only, but tractor-drawn trailer tours operate 1st Sat of the month July to Sept, booking essential. No dogs

RSPB Wrabness - 40 mins

RSPB Wolves Wood - Hadleigh - 12 mins

Rendlesham Forest - Woodbridge - 45 mins - wonderful ancient oak parts to this forest

Tunstall Forest - Woodbridge - 45 mins

Bradfield Woods nature reserve - 25 mins

Ager Fen Nature reserve - 12 mins

Groton Woods Nature reserve - 5 mins

This page will get added to as soon as I have finished 'Ripening and Bottling' my honey - Mark . The Grove Cottages