Snape, Suffolk
Snape is a small village in the English county of Suffolk, on the River Alde close to Aldeburgh.
Snape is a small village in the English county of Suffolk, on the River Alde close to Aldeburgh. At the 2011 census the population was 611. In Anglo-Saxon England, Snape was the site of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Snape is now best known for Snape Maltings, no longer in commercial use, but converted into a tourist centre together with a concert hall that hosts the major part of the annual Aldeburgh Festival.
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Worth seeing in and around Snape, Suffolk
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
The Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is a place of burial dated to the 6th century AD located on Snape Common, near to the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, Eastern England. Dating to the early part of the Anglo-Saxon Era of English history, it contains a variety of different forms of burial, with inhumation and cremation burials being found in roughly equal proportions.
100 m · Anglo-Saxon burial site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Snape, Suffolk
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 92 km · London Luton (LTN), 132 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 144 km
- London, Essex → Snape, Suffolk134 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–19
- London → Snape, Suffolk134 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–19
- Luton, Luton → Snape, Suffolk135 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £15–20
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- Go nextVisit Ipswich, or take a ferry to Orford Ness for marshland hikes and recent military history.
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