Best beaches in Suffolk
Suffolk's coastline offers an enchanting blend of wild shingle strands, golden sandy bays, and charming seaside towns steeped in maritime heritage. From the cultural fishing villages of Aldeburgh and Walberswick to the dramatic eroding cliffs of Covehithe, each beach tells its own story while delivering quintessentially English coastal experiences that range from family-friendly fun to peaceful nature escapes.
Working fishing boats and fish stalls sit right on the shingle, with Maggi Hambling's giant steel Scallop sculpture rising straight out of the beach.
Southwold's Victorian pier anchors this stretch of sand, home to the quirky Under The Pier Show and holding Blue Flag and Seaside Award status.
North along the front from the pier, The Denes trades crowds for marshland and dunes — Southwold's wilder, quieter stretch of sand.
Once home to the World Crabbing Championships, Walberswick is reached from Southwold by a genuine foot ferry across the estuary.
A smaller church built inside the ruins of a larger medieval one, St Andrew's watches over a coastline visibly reshaping itself, cliff by cliff..
Ness Point, right here, is officially Britain's most easterly spot on the mainland — about as far east as England gets.
Beneath the waves off Dunwich lies a lost medieval capital — once the seat of the Kingdom of the East Angles, swallowed by the sea.
The cliffs here are a genuine fossil site, yielding sabre-toothed cat and hippo remains from 600,000 years ago, with Africa Alive next door.
Behind the beach sits the eccentric mock-Tudor village of Thorpeness, its famous House in the Clouds rising above the rooftops.