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Discover the Lower Stour
Terry Palmer
ISBN 978 1 8521502 9 7
£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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