Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh is an English town on the North Sea shore in the region of Suffolk, to the north of the River Alde. It was home to the author Benjamin Britten as well as has been the centre of the worldwide Aldeburgh Festival of arts at close-by Snape Maltings, started by Britten in 1948. It continues to be an arts as well as literary centre, with a yearly Verse Celebration and also a number of food festivals and various other events. As a Tudor port, Aldeburgh was provided borough status in 1529 by Henry VIII. Its historical buildings include a 16th-century moot hall as well as a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. Second homes compose about a third of its housing. Site visitors are drawn to its Blue Flag roof shingles beach as well as fisherman huts, where fresh fish are offered daily, by Aldeburgh Yacht Club, as well as by its social offerings. Two family-run fish as well as chip stores are cited as being among the best in the country. Aldeburgh has a town council and also lies within the East Suffolk non-metropolitan area. Aldeburgh ward, which includes Thorpeness as well as various other areas, had a population of 3,225 in the 2011 census, when the mean age of the residents was 55 and the median age 61.
