Historic Cities · England
Dunwich through the ages
Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape around 92 miles (148 km) north-east of London, 9 miles (14 km) south of Southwold and 7 miles (11 km) north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast.
Dunwich in 1280
The Great Port of Suffolk
This walk visits Dunwich at its height, a generation before the great storms that began in 1286. Expect a busy coastal town of many church towers, crowded quays and friaries on the cliff, where herring and wine ships lie at anchor and parish life fills narrow streets.
In 1280 Dunwich presents a low, clustered skyline of flint-and-freestone church towers and timber-framed houses, all pressed close to a narrow headland and shingle banks. The harbour is a forest of masts and sails—coastal herring busses, Flemish and English trading cogs with wine barrels on deck—while gulls and salt spray blur the line between sea and quay. Streets are narrow, rutted and wind-scoured; friaries and hospital walls punctuate the town's compact profile under a pale, often windy North Sea light.
The route: 10 streets, squares and views
Dunwich Headland → Shingle Spit → Dunwich Harbour → Shipowners' Hall → Maison Dieu Hospital → Market Place → All Saints' Church → Greyfriars → Blackfriars Priory → Dunwich Hill
Step inside, 5 interiors
Quay Merchants' Hall · Hospital Infirmary · Covered Market Hall · Parish Nave · Friars' Refectory
Planned from the Wikipedia record: Dunwich.
