Southwold
Southwold is a seaside town and civil parish on the North Sea, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It lies at the mouth of the River Blyth in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 11 miles south of Lowestoft, 29 miles north-east of Ipswich and 97 miles north-east of London, within the parliamentary constituency of Suffolk Coastal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 950 residents
- Description: town in Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Southwold, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Southwold Town Hall and Town Pump.
Southwold Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Keith Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southwold Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Southwold, Suffolk, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Southwold Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Southwold Sailors’ Reading Room
Museum
Photo: Asteuartw, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Southwold Sailors' Reading Room is a Grade II listed building on the seafront at Southwold, England. It was built in 1864 as a place for fishermen and mariners to read, as an alternative to drinking in pubs, and also to encourage the pursuit of Christian ideals.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reydon and Walberswick.
Reydon
Village
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Reydon is a village and civil parish, 1.0 mile north-west of Southwold and 2.5 miles south-east of Wangford, in the East Suffolk district and the ceremonial county of Suffolk, England.
Walberswick
Village
Walberswick is a village and civil parish on the Suffolk coast in England. It is at the mouth of the River Blyth on the south side of the river. The town of Southwold lies to the north of the river and is the nearest town to Walberswick, around 1 mile away.
Easton Bavents
Hamlet
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Easton Bavents is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Reydon, in the East Suffolk district of the county of Suffolk, England. Once an important village with a market, it has been much eroded by the North Sea.
Southwold
- Categories: fishing port, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Southwold, Waveney District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.32608° or 52° 19′ 34″ northLongitude
1.67931° or 1° 40′ 46″ eastPopulation
950Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SWDOpen location code
9F438MGH+CPOpenStreetMap ID
node 54079912OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Southwold” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Southwold”
- Basque: “Southwold”
- Bengali: “সাউথউড”
- Catalan: “Southwold”
- Cebuano: “Southwold”
- Chinese: “Southwold”
- Chinese: “修沃特”
- Chinese: “索思沃爾德”
- Chinese: “绍斯沃尔德”
- Dutch: “Southwold”
- Esperanto: “Southwold”
- French: “Southwold”
- German: “Southwold”
- Gujarati: “સાઉથવોલ્ડ”
- Hungarian: “Southwold”
- Irish: “Southwold”
- Italian: “Southwold”
- Japanese: “サウスウォルド”
- Japanese: “サウスワールド”
- Kannada: “ಸೌಥ್ವಾಲ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “사우스울드”
- Ladin: “Southwold”
- Lithuanian: “Sautvoldas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Southwold”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Southwold”
- Persian: “ساوتوود”
- Polish: “Southwold”
- Portuguese: “Southwold”
- Romanian: “Southwold”
- Russian: “Соузволд”
- Samogitian: “Sautvolds”
- Slovenian: “Southwold”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساوتوود”
- Spanish: “Southwold”
- Swedish: “Southwold”
- Tamil: “சவுத்ஒல்டு”
- Telugu: “సౌత్వోల్డ్”
- Turkish: “Southwold”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ ہوولد”
- Volapük: “Southwold”
- Welsh: “Southwold”
- “Sautvolds”
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