22 Facts About Southwold

Southwold is a seaside town and civil parish on the English North Sea coast in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk.

Southwold was mentioned in Domesday Book as a fishing port, and after the "capricious River Blyth withdrew from Dunwich in 1328, bringing trade to Southwold in the 15th century", it received its town charter from Henry VII in 1489.

Southwold was the home of a number of Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s, notably a party of 18 assembled under Rev Young, which travelled in the Mary Ann in 1637.

Up to 1 April 2019, Southwold was part of the Southwold and Reydon electoral ward in the Waveney District Council area.

The fishing fleet is much diminished, but Southwold Harbour remains one of the main fishing ports on the Suffolk coastline.

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Nearest secondary school for Southwold children was Reydon High School until it closed in 1990.

Narrow-gauge Southwold Railway connecting the town to Halesworth ran from 24 September 1879 to 11 April 1929.

Southwold lighthouse was commissioned in 1890 and automated and electrified in 1938.

Southwold Museum holds a number of exhibits focused on the local and natural history of the town.

Southwold Sailors' Reading Room is a Grade II listed building on the seafront at Southwold.

Grade I listed parish church of Southwold is dedicated to St Edmund and considered one of Suffolk's finest.

The earlier church dated from the time when Southwold was a small fishing hamlet adjacent to the larger Reydon.

The clubhouse of Southwold Sailing Club is on the north side of the harbour adjacent to The Harbour Inn.

Southwold's said that setting a murder in the car park made her feel as if she were "soiling something really good".

Southwold's holidayed in the town as a child and remarked in an interview that everything else in her life had changed, but her mother and Southwold had stayed the same.

An earlier book thought to be set in Southwold is Beside the Guns by the Christian author Mary Elizabeth Shipley.

In January–June 1922 he attended an educational crammer in Southwold to prepare for Indian Police Service exams and his career in Burma.

In 1929, after 18 months in Paris, he returned to the family in Southwold and was based there for most of the next five years.

Southwold tutored a disabled child and a family of three boys and wrote reviews and developed Burmese Days.

Southwold spent nearly 18 months teaching in West London, until struck by a bout of pneumonia.

Southwold spent the time writing A Clergyman's Daughter, which is partly set in a fictionalised East Anglian town called "Knype Hill".

In 2005, Southwold launched Suffolk's "answer to the Turner prize", the "Flying Egg" competition.