Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh is an English town on the North Sea coast in the county 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 global Aldeburgh Event of arts at nearby Snape Maltings, started by Britten in 1948. It stays an arts as well as literary centre, with a yearly Verse Festival and several food festivals and other occasions. As a Tudor port, Aldeburgh was given district status in 1529 by Henry VIII. Its historic structures include a 16th-century moot hall and also a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. Second residences compose concerning a 3rd of its housing. Site visitors are attracted to its Blue Flag tile beach and fisherman huts, where fresh fish are sold daily, by Aldeburgh Yacht Club, and also by its social offerings. Two family-run fish and also chip stores are mentioned as being among the 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 and also various other neighborhoods, had a population of 3,225 in the 2011 census, when the mean age of the inhabitants was 55 and also the mean age 61.