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Cavendish<br />
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field<br />
Pentlow A1092<br />
Belchamp<br />
St Paul<br />
Halstead<br />
A131<br />
igh Garret<br />
Moving on, drive south to the pretty market town of Sudbury, where you can visit<br />
the birthplace and home of Thomas Gainsborough, eighteenth-century England’s leading<br />
portrait painter. The house is now a museum, displaying an outstanding collection<br />
of Gainsborough’s works; for a full account, see p.92.<br />
From here, head east through the bucolic landscape of the Stour Valley. You’ll<br />
pass through the picture-perfect village of Stoke-by-Nayland, with its clutch of<br />
timber-framed cottages, before reaching the historic little town of Dedham. Here,<br />
Castle House (01206 322127, www.siralfredmunnings.co.uk) was for forty years<br />
the home of Sir Alfred Munnings, famed for his paintings of horses. It’s now a<br />
gallery–museum displaying the largest single collection of Munnings’ works. There’s<br />
an accessible toilet and good wheelchair access to the ground-floor galleries, but not to<br />
the two first-floor galleries.<br />
The most celebrated local artist, however, is John Constable, who grew up nearby<br />
and came to school here in Dedham. While you’re here, pop into the parish church on<br />
the high street, which houses one of his paintings, The Ascension. Back on the road,<br />
loop east then north over the River Stour to East Bergholt, where Constable was born,<br />
continuing to the neighbouring hamlet of Flatford, where he painted some of his most<br />
famous works, including Willy Lott’s Cottage, near Flatford Mill. The mill and cottage<br />
in question are now owned by the National Trust (no general access), as is Bridge<br />
Cottage (01206 298260, www.nationaltrust.org.uk), which houses an exhibition on<br />
Constable’s life and works (with level access), and has a lovely riverside tearoom.<br />
FOOD & DRINK aa Melford Hall, Gainsborough’s House and Bridge Cottage all have<br />
attractive and accessible on-site cafés serving sandwiches, cakes<br />
and light snacks. In Dedham, the Essex Rose Tea House<br />
Hartest<br />
B1066<br />
A134<br />
Preston<br />
Lavenham<br />
Glemsford LONG<br />
MELFORD<br />
B1071<br />
B1115<br />
B1064<br />
Little<br />
A134 Waldingfield<br />
SUDBURY<br />
Bulmer<br />
B1058<br />
A1124<br />
A131<br />
Great<br />
Henny<br />
Pebmarsh<br />
ESSEX<br />
Earls<br />
Colne<br />
B1508<br />
Lamarsh<br />
White Colne<br />
Colne<br />
Newton<br />
Boxford<br />
Assington<br />
Bures<br />
Mount<br />
Bures<br />
A134<br />
B1068<br />
Nayland<br />
0 5 miles<br />
(01206 323101) on the high street, is another good<br />
bet; fully accessible, it serves delicious cream<br />
teas as well as hot food and snacks.<br />
Monks<br />
Eleigh<br />
West<br />
Bergholt<br />
Kersey<br />
SUFFOLK<br />
Great<br />
Horkesley<br />
A12<br />
Layham<br />
Stoke-by-<br />
Nayland<br />
Higham<br />
Hadleigh<br />
B1070<br />
Raydon<br />
B1068<br />
Stratford<br />
St Mary<br />
DEDHAM<br />
B1029<br />
A120<br />
Colchester<br />
A1071<br />
A12<br />
Lawford<br />
Capel St Mary<br />
B1070<br />
Chattisham<br />
A137<br />
Brantham<br />
Copdock<br />
EAST BERGHOLT<br />
Mistley<br />
Manningtree<br />
Ipswich<br />
Little<br />
Bromley<br />
Great<br />
Bromley B1035<br />
Tattingstone<br />
A120<br />
Ereston<br />
B1080<br />
Stutton<br />
Little Bentley<br />
Stour<br />
Wrabness<br />
Tendring<br />
B1352<br />
Harwich<br />
Wix<br />
Orwell<br />
Chelmondisto<br />
B1456<br />
Great<br />
Oakley<br />
THE EAST MIDLANDS AND EAST ANGLIA<br />
Ramsey<br />
Erwarto<br />
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