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Discover the Lower Stour
Terry Palmer
ISBN 978 1 85215 0297
£2.95
The River Stour rises in
Cambridgeshire and flows south east
for around 47 miles through some of
the most charming countryside in the
eastern counties. It trickles past
old-world Clare and Cavendish, home
of the Sue Ryder Foundation; it
babbles by Long Melford and its
stately halls; it flows through
Sudbury, birthplace of England's
great portrait painter Thomas
Gainsborough. Then it chuckles
through Constable Country, its waters
sliding beneath Flatford Mill where
England's finest landscape painter,
John Constable, spent his childhood.
At Dedham it reaches the home of Sir
Alfred Munnings, renowned for his
paintings of horses, and Tom Keating,
the brilliant artist who could
imitate the styles of all other
painters, until finally the river
becomes an estuary and flows as a
great stream between Harwich and its
rival port of Felixstowe.
Discover the Lower Stour
shows you the history and mystery of
this enchanted region from Boadicea
to Borley Rectory - but also has
practical information on where to
stay and eat, the hotels, B&Bs,
pubs and restaurants.
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