Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh is an English community on the North Sea coast in the area of Suffolk, to the north of the River Alde. It was home to the composer Benjamin Britten and has actually been the centre of the worldwide Aldeburgh Event of arts at close-by Snape Maltings, founded by Britten in 1948. It remains an arts and also literary centre, with an annual Verse Celebration and a number of food festivals and also various other occasions. As a Tudor port, Aldeburgh was provided borough condition in 1529 by Henry VIII. Its historical buildings consist of a 16th-century moot hall and a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower. Second residences comprise concerning a third of its housing. Site visitors are drawn to its Blue Flag tile beach as well as fisherman huts, where fresh fish are sold daily, by Aldeburgh Yacht Club, and by its social offerings. Two family-run fish and chip shops are mentioned as being among the very best in the nation. Aldeburgh has a town council and exists within the East Suffolk non-metropolitan area. 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 inhabitants was 55 and the average age 61.
