Southwold, Suffolk multivew incl. Lighthouse 70s Dennis

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Southwold multiview: Market Place, Gun Hill, Lighthouse
• Publisher:  Dennis (S.012013L)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Southwold is a town on the North Sea coast, in the Waveney district of Suffolk, East Anglia, England. It is located at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is within the parliamentary constituency of Suffolk Coastal.

Southwold was mentioned in the Domesday Book as an important fishing port, and it received its town charter from Henry VII in 1489.^{[citation needed]} Over the following centuries a shingle bar built up across the harbour mouth, preventing the town from becoming a major port.

Southwold was the home of a number of Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early seventeenth century. Richard Ibrook, born in Southwold and a former bailiff of the town, emigrated to Hingham, Massachusetts, along with Rev. Peter Hobart, son of Edmund Hobart of Hingham, Norfolk. Rev. Hobart was formerly an assistant vicar of Southwold's St. Edmunds Church after his graduation from Magdalene College, Cambridge.^[1] (Hobart married as his second wife in America Rebecca Ibrook, daughter of his fellow Puritan Richard Ibrook.) The immigrants to Hingham were led by Robert Peck, vicar of St. Andrews' Church in Hingham and a native of Beccles, Suffolk.

In 1659 a fire devastated most of the town^{[citation needed]} and damaged St Edmunds Church, whose original structure dated from the 12th century. The fire created a number of open spaces within the town which were never rebuilt. Today these greens, and the restriction of expansion because of the surrounding marshes, have preserved its genteel appearance.

On the green just above the beach, descriptively named Gun Hill, the six eighteen-pounder cannon commemorate the Battle of Sole Bay, fought in 1672 between English and French fleets on one side and the Dutch (under Michiel de Ruyter) on the other. The battle was bloody but indecisive and many bodies were washed ashore. Southwold Museum has a collection of mementos of the event.

It has occasionally been held that the cannons were actually captured from the Scots at Culloden and given to the town by the Duke of Cumberland but they are much larger than those used in that campaign.

The narrow-gauge Southwold Railway connected to Halesworth and ran from the 24 September 1879 to April 1929.^[2] In 2007 the Southwold Railway Society submitted plans to build a new line running between the parish of Easton Bavents and Henham Park, with the intention of creating a link from the town to the nearest mainline service at Halesworth.^[3] However, these plans were criticised for having no relation to the original route of the railway and, amongst other reasons, environmental concerns. In July 2007 the plans were rejected by both Waveney and Suffolk Coastal District Councils.^[4].

In December 2008 the Railway Society introduced a new proposal for a Railway Park, including railway track and a museum, on a site at present occupied by a car-breaker's yard, adjacent to the local sewage works.^[5]

Southwold lighthouse was constructed in 1887 by Trinity House. It stands as a landmark in the centre of the town. It replaced three local lighthouses that were under serious threat from coastal erosion. It began operation in 1890 and was electrified and de-manned in 1938. The lighthouse is unusual in that the light itself is switched on and off in sequence (four flashes every 20 seconds), rather than using lenses to create a rotating beam. Trinity House organises visits during the summer.^[6]