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In this agricultural county of East Anglia 'scenery and buildings are a delight' wrote Pevsner.
Numerous medieval houses and magnificent flint-faced churches with fine roofs and rich
furnishings bear witness to the prosperity brought by the late medieval cloth trade. Castles
are nobly represented by the unusual polygonal keep of Orford and the curtain-walled
Framlingham, and great houses by a notable sequence of brick buildings of the sixteenth
century. Among the coastal settlements are the lost town of Dunwich and picturesque
Southwold; the varied inland towns range from Lavenham, remarkable for its exceptionally
well preserved timber-framed buildings, to Bury St Edmunds, where fine Georgian houses are
gathered around the precinct of the vast Norman abbey.
