The History Of Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of important origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with  Norfolk to the northeast, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east.  The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe, one  of the greatest container ports in Europe.

The county is low-lying with a few mounds, and is for the most part wetland habitat and arable land with the wetlands  of The Broads in the North. The Suffolk Coast and Heathlands are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Suffolk was part of the kingdom of East Anglia which was settled by the Angles in the 5th century AD.

Suffolk was divided into separate Quarter Sessions sections. These were originally four in number,  reduced to 2 in 1860, the eastern division being administered from Ipswich and the west from Bury St  Edmunds. The 2 sections were made separate administrative counties as East Suffolk and West Suffolk under the Local Government Act 1888, with Ipswich becoming a county borough. A couple of Essex parishes were also added to Suffolk: Ballingdon-with-Brundon, and parts of Haverhill and Kedington.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, East Suffolk, West Suffolk and Ipswich were merged to form a united county of Suffolk on 1 April 1974. This was spread into several local government districts: Babergh,  Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal, and Waveney. This Act also changed some land near Great Yarmouth to Norfolk. As introduced in Parliament, the Local Government  Bill would have transferred Newmarket and Haverhill to Cambridgeshire, but Colchester would have been shifted in from Essex; but those changes were not included in Act as passed.

I currently live in Suffolk and have the pleasure of dealing with numerous estate agents from Felixstowe, Framlingham, Ipswich and I have created this site to list my experiences with each of them and hopefully list the best Estate Agents in Suffolk.