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 and also has been the centre of the global Aldeburgh Festival of arts at close-by Snape Maltings, started by Britten in 1948. It stays an arts and also literary centre, with a yearly Poetry Event as well as several food festivals and various other events. As a Tudor port, Aldeburgh was given district condition in 1529 by Henry VIII. Its historical buildings consist of a 16th-century moot hall as well as a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. Second homes make up about a third of its housing. Site visitors are attracted to its Blue Flag tile coastline and fisherman huts, where fresh fish are sold daily, by Aldeburgh Yacht Club, and by its cultural offerings. Two family-run fish and also chip stores are cited as being amongst the very best in the country. Aldeburgh has a town council as well as exists within the East Suffolk non-metropolitan district. Aldeburgh ward, that includes Thorpeness and also various other communities, had a population of 3,225 in the 2011 census, when the mean age of the inhabitants was 55 as well as the mean age 61.
