Hotels in Suffolk

The hills and river valleys surrounding the Suffolk - Essex border open up to magnificent skies, captured in paintings by Turner, Constable and Gainsborough. Timbered houses, moated manors and fine church towers enrich towns and villages which prospered from wool and weaving in medieval times. The Suffolk coast is awash with yacht moorings, flat marshes and oyster beds and has recently become a playground for out-of-towners seeking golf and sailing breaks. Bird sanctuaries also abound. Coastal towns like Southwold, Thorpeness and Aldeburgh, where we have member hotels, have prospered, the latter partly because of the music festival founded by Sir Benjamin Britten.

Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds were founded as important market towns five centuries ago and Christchurch Park (Ipswich) and the Abbey surrounds and museum in Bury are fascinating. Framlingham Castle is one of the best preserved in England and Helmingham Hall’s gardens are famous. Newmarket in the West of the county has been home to British horse racing since the 17th century and the Jockey Club, Tattersalls and the National Stud all have their headquarters here. There are huge air bases at Mildenhall and Lakenheath.

Communications are good with the A12 now all dualled from outer London and the A14 linking Ipswich and the booming port of Felixstowe with the Midlands.

All our Suffolk hotels provide the exceptional standards of luxury expected from a Signpost premier hotel.