East Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England. The largest town is Lowestoft, which contains Ness Point, the easternmost point of the United Kingdom. The second largest town is Felixstowe, which has the country's largest container port. On the district's south-western edge it includes parts of the Ipswich built-up area. The rest of the district is largely rural, containing many towns and villages, including several seaside resorts. Its council is based in the village of Melton. The district was formed in 2019 as a merger of the two previous districts of Suffolk Coastal and Waveney. In 2021 it had a population of 246,058. It is the most populous district in the country not to be a unitary authority.
Beach and harbour at Lowestoft, the district's largest town.
Beccles, one of the district's towns.
Southwold, one of the district's seaside resort towns.
Framlingham Castle
Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county town.
Image: Orford Ness 2016 08 27 2 (cropped, edited)
Image: Norman Tower, Bury St Edmunds 01
Excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship in 1939
16th century cottage in Ixworth, with pargetting and traditional Suffolk Pink limewash
