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Blythburgh / ˈblaɪðbərə / is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Southwold and 5 miles (8.0 km) south-east of Halesworth and lies on the River Blyth. The A12 road runs through the village which is split either side of the road.
Blythburgh village stands within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty just inland from Southwold on the Heritage Coast of north-east Suffolk. The tidal section of the River Blyth flows just to the north of the village on its way out to the sea at Southwold Harbour.
- Far from The Madding Crowd
- Watched Over by Angels
- An Elegy to Time
I used to visit Blythburgh as a kid. My Dad liked it here: the lonely desolation a tonic for the hustle and bustle of Cambridge’s university life. His love of churches inspired me. In Ely and St Edmundsbury we went to cathedrals together. At Orford and Long Melfordhe showed me the brasses and stained glasses. But Blythburgh’s impression on me was a...
A church first stood in Blythburgh before 654 CE. That was the year King Penda of Mercia slaughtered King Anna of East Angliaand his son in battle. Anna’s followers brought their bodies here for burial. The present building is mostly 15th-century. In this part of England those days were what Evelyn Waugh calledthe fat days of wool shearing and the ...
Blythburgh’s decline has been a long time in coming. The Reformation, an early blow, destroyed the priorywhich abutted the church. The tower’s steeple fell in 1577 and its lack of resurrection somehow seems to symbolise this part of Suffolk’s gentle retreat thereafter into bucolic backwater. In the 1640s, “Smasher Dowsing” and his men attacked the ...
Blythburgh is a small village in northeast Suffolk, just under 100 miles from London and four miles from the North Sea at Southwold. It is set in a landscape of outstanding natural beauty with tidal river, marsh, heath, small woods, pasture and arable fields.
Blythburgh village stands within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty just inland from Southwold on the Heritage Coast of north-east Suffolk. The tidal section of the River Blyth flows just to the north of the village on its way out to the sea at Southwold Harbour.
Nov 14, 2015 · A visit to historic Blythburgh should include the "Cathedral of the Marshes," the massive 15th-century stone church that dominates the small village.
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Blythburgh village stands within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty just inland from Southwold on the Heritage Coast of north-east Suffolk. The tidal section of the River Blyth flows just to the north of the village on its way out to the sea at Southwold Harbour.
