Today is Suffolk Day. 10 things you might not know about the English county of Suffolk:
Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county town.
The name comes from a division of ancient inhabitants into “North folk” (Norfolk) and “South folk” (Suffolk)
The county is home to the smallest pub in the world, The Nutshell, in Bury St Edmunds. It is a former fruit shop, 15ft by 7ft, and opened in 1867.
It’s also where the most easterly point in the UK is located: Ness Point, in Lowestoft.
There is a breed of Horses unique to Suffolk. They are called the Suffolk Punch. They are in danger of going extinct, and are cared for by the Suffolk Punch Trust.
Villages and towns here are pink-washed halls and cottages, which has given rise to a shade of paint called “Suffolk Pink”. While a village called Woolpit used to be famous for making white bricks which were exported all over the world.
Bawdsey is the location of the first operational radar station in the world, developed in secret there in the run up to WW2.
Along with Cheshire, Suffolk has one of the highest densities of ponds in the UK.
The nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was written in Shilling Street, Lavenham in 1806. The poet Jane Taylor was living there at the time.
Famous people from Suffolk include: author George Orwell, painters John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough, DJ John Peel, TV cook Delia Smith, Actors Bob Hoskins, June Brown and Ralph Fiennes, Comedian Griff Rhys Jones, composer Benjamin Britten and singer Ed Sheeran.
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The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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