Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh is an English community on the North Sea coastline in the region of Suffolk, to the north of the River Alde. It was home to the composer Benjamin Britten and also has actually been the centre of the global Aldeburgh Festival of arts at close-by Snape Maltings, established by Britten in 1948. It continues to be an arts and also literary centre, with a yearly Poetry Event as well as numerous food festivals and other occasions. As a Tudor port, Aldeburgh was provided district condition in 1529 by Henry VIII. Its historical buildings include a 16th-century moot hall as well as a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. 2nd houses comprise regarding a 3rd of its housing. Site visitors are attracted to its Blue Flag shingle coastline and also fisherman huts, where fresh fish are offered daily, by Aldeburgh Yacht Club, and by its social offerings. 2 family-run fish and chip shops are pointed out as being among the very best in the country. Aldeburgh has a town council as well as lies within the East Suffolk non-metropolitan district. Aldeburgh ward, that includes Thorpeness as well as other areas, had a population of 3,225 in the 2011 census, when the mean age of the citizens was 55 and the typical age 61.