Wickham Market is a thriving town just a 20 minute drive from the sea!
Offering a variety of independent shops selling everything from home furnishings to food, giftware and clothing, a Post Office, an art gallery, a pharmacy, two antique centres, tennis courts and a multi-use games area, a skate park, and a well-established bowls club - something for every member of the family.
Not forgetting the great choice of places to eat, with two cafés on The Hill, a fish and chip takeaway, Chinese and Indian restaurants, and The George Community Pub. Looking for something more active? Valley Farm Riding & Driving Centre, with its own café and Glevering Mill golf course, is close by.
Ideally placed to explore many of the Suffolk Coast's highlights, including Easton Farm Park, Snape Maltings, Framlingham Castle, Orford Castle, Woodbridge Tide Mill and the National Trust Sutton Hoo. A perfect destination for those all-important weekend getaways!
Did you know?
Wickham Market has a rich history, once a pivotal point for access to Framlingham there was a weekly market and two fairs that were granted by Henry VI in 1440.
In the recent past there was an iron and engineering works producing steam engines, water wheels, windmills and machinery especially for corn and flour mills.
On the outskirts of the village there are spooky encounters at Dragarse Hill. There you will find the remains of Potsford Gibbet last known hanging here was April 1699. The ghost of Jonah Snell is reported to frequent the area. Snell was guilty of grizzly murders and was dragged naked, on his backside up the hill to the gibbet - it is where the name for the hill came from.