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houses facing the shingle beach, a high street full of independent shops, and you can still buy

freshly caught fish from shacks on the beach. Maggi Hambling’s sculpture The Scallop,

dedicated to Britten, is an unmissable presence on the shoreline, as is Moot Hall, a Tudor

building that is still used for council meetings and houses Aldeburgh Museum.
“This January and February has been the busiest I’ve ever seen,” says Paul Gray, managing

director of the local estate agency Flick & Son. “The average age of buyers has come down.

We’re seeing people coming from Cambridgeshire, Surrey and Kent as well as London and the

rest of Suffolk.”

This three-bedroom period cottage in Aldeburgh is on the market for £750,000 via Flick & Son
How do I get there?

It’s a two-and-a-half-hour drive from London, 45 minutes from Ipswich and just over an hour

from Bury St Edmunds. The nearest station is a 15-minute drive away at Saxmundham, where

the fastest trains to London Liverpool Street take one hour, 55 minutes.
What’s on the high street?

Indie food shops include Slate cheesemongers and deli; Salter & King craft butchers, which

sources all meat from local farms; and Ash Smoked Fishes on the seafront, renowned for their

fishy quiches. Plus there are two good wine merchants on the high street, as well as the