Sudbury
Set in the heart of the Stour Valley, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the market town of Sudbury is an ideal centre for both business and pleasure trips to East Anglia. The ever improving road network, a rail link with Colchester to London and many cultural and sporting facilities, fine inns and hotels, makes Sudbury an excellent place to visit. For centuries the weaving and silk industry has prospered here and many great houses and churches have been built, giving the town an outstanding historical legacy. A market is held on a Thursday and Saturday.
ohn Constable is not the only renowned artist to be native to South Suffolk. Thomas Gainsborough was born in the market town of Sudbury in 1727 in what is now called Gainsborough's House in Gainsborough Street and which is a museum open to the public. Gainsborough's House boasts one of the most important collections of Thomas Gainsborough's paintings outside of London and also contains furniture from that period, a modern art gallery with printing facilities for workshops and a gift shop.
