Southwold
Southwold is a small town and also civil parish on the English North Sea shore in the East Suffolk area of Suffolk. It lies at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town has to do with 11 miles (18 km) south of Lowestoft, 29 miles (47 kilometres) north-east of Ipswich and 97 miles (156 kilometres) north-east of London, within the parliamentary constituency of Suffolk Coastal. The "All Common Residents" 2011 Census figure offers an overall of 1,098 individuals for the town. The 2012 Real estate Report by the Southwold and also Reydon Society concluded that 49 percent of the houses in the town are made use of as 2nd homes as well as let to holiday-makers. Although once house to a variety of various markets, Southwold's economic situation nowadays is primarily based upon services, as well as specifically hotels, vacation accommodation, catering, and also tourism. With the surrounding locations mostly given over to agriculture, the town is a crucial industrial centre for the location, with a variety of independent shops, cafés and also restaurants; and a market on Mondays as well as Thursdays. Nonetheless, there has been a marked fad in recent years for retailing chains, including food as well as drinks, clothes as well as stationery stores, to take over previously independent retail properties. Adnams Brewery lies in Southwold, and also is the community's biggest solitary company. Although the angling fleet and also the sector normally is much reduced, Southwold Harbour stays one of the major fishing ports on the Suffolk coast. In 2012, added facilities for the fleet were built there, as part of the repair work and reinstatement of the Harbour's North Wall.
