Coastal Suffolk

Robert Simper

Coastal Suffolk
Robert Simper
Softback

£14.95

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Description

Coastal Suffolk paints a picture of the towns, villages, countryside and rivers of the Suffolk Coast.

It sets out to show how the various outside influences starting with the Viking and moving on to the Dutch, helped to shape the villages and towns. It moves on to sailing barges and fishing boats of the coast and how the great nineteenth century estates rebuilt the villages and laid out the countryside for pheasant shooting. It explains the beginning of the era of the Forestry Commission who created the huge pine forests and also the bird reserves that make a considerable impact on the coastal area. It shows how wildly different the towns of the Sunrise Coast are; Southwold, Walberswick, Saxmundham, Leiston, Aldeburgh, Orford, Woodbridge and Felixstowe are only a few miles apart, but all have their very own strong identity. It shows how the estuaries divide the coast up into a series of very different ‘islands.’ The villages on the Shotley, Felixstowe and Bawdsey peninsulas have a very different feeling to the heath land villages north of the River Alde.

The author’s in depth knowledge and love of this coast comes through in the text and his superb colour photographs.

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About The Author

Robert Simper

Robert Simper’s home has always been in Suffolk.  He was born in Blaxhall, grew up in Bawdsey and has lived most of his life in Ramsholt.  He led a conventional farming life until he had a bad back injury and turned to writing as well as farming and sailing.  He is best known for his series of books about the rivers on the East Coast of England, but has written extensively on traditional work boats all over the world and in 2010 the World Ship Trust awarded him a citation ‘for many years of helping to record and preserve so much of the country’s vintage sailing craft’.

Robert has written over 40 books since his first in 1967.  Many are now out of print – those that Bittern still have are highlighted with links to the product page.

East Anglian Books

 
Sail Books
  • East Coast Sail (1972)
  • Scottish Sail (1974)
  • North East Sail (1975)
  • Victorian and Edwardian Yachting (1978)
  • Gaff Sail (1979)
  • Sail on the Orwell (1982)
  • Sail: The Surviving Tradition (1984)
  • The Cambria Story (2012)
British Isles
  • British Sail (1977)
  • Britain’s Maritime Heritage (1982)
  • Beach Boats of Britain (1984)
English Estuaries Series
  • The River Deben (1992)
  • The River Orwell and the River Stour (1993)
  • Rivers Alde, Ore and Blyth (1994)
  • Essex Rivers and Creeks (1995)
  • Norfolk Rivers and Harbours (1996)
  • Thames Tideway (1997)
  • River Medway and The Swale (1998)
  • Rivers to the Fens (2000)
  • Up the River Deben (2006)
Autobiographical
Coast in the Past

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