with wherry boats that carried cargo along the Blyth Navigation canal to the North Sea, Halesworth is now a quieter locale. Today, the timber-framed, Georgian and Victorian buildings of the ancient market town, fringed by the largest millennium green in the country, are lively with cosy cafés, indie shops, antique stores and under-the-radar arts centre, a month-long exhibition from 12 October, showcasing the work of 35 Suffolk-based artists.
Halesworth is found at the eastern stretch of the Blyth Valley, a scenic gentle landscape of wide skies, country lanes, pubs and churches that runs from past the spectacular painted ceiling of Huntingfield church and out to holiday hot spot Southwold on the coast.Halesworth Station, a five-minute walk from the main shopping street of the Thoroughfare, is on the Greater Anglia Ipswich-Lowestoft line, with hourly connections at Ipswich via London.
2) British general Sir Benjamin D’Urban, who gave his name to South Africa’s biggest seaport, was born in Halesworth in 1777.