To the south of Lowestoft is Kessingland, a large village in an area that has been occupied since Paleolithic times.
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Vikings, Romans, Saxons and Normans have all walked this land at some point, and now people from across the country spend their holidays here, exploring the local area and the rest of the Suffolk Coast.
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Kessingland is a site of great interest for archaeologists as the crumbling cliffs regularly expose fossils from the Jurassic period and even Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements. During the early part of world war two anti-tank defences and gun batteries were put in place in Kessingland to help protect the coastline and the south of Lowestoft, the remains of some of them can still be seen today.
Notable author Sir H Rider Haggard spent his summers at Kessingland, often visited by his friend Rudyard Kipling. Haggard famously wrote ‘King Soloman’s Mines’ and the classic novel ‘She’, which sold 83 million copies when it was first published and is considered one of the best selling books of all time. Rider Haggard Lane in Kessingland pays tribute to the author.
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