Suffolk (pronounced 'suffuk') occurs as big traditional & administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. It has borders by having Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. A North Sea lies to the east. A county town is Ipswich, at and more crucial towns come Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds.

A county is great-lying by owning pack hills, & is largely wetland habitat and arable land. A Suffolk Broads area is part of The Broads National Park, and a Suffolk Coast and Heaths is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

History

Suffolk was a portion of the kingdom of East Anglia made up of ii independent tribes; a Iceni northward & a Trinovantes of the South (loosely Norfolk/Suffolk). Maybe the virtually all swell known of a tribal kings was Prasutagas, (an Iceni) whose dying gave the Romans a strategical chance to invade East Anglia & 'choose' a potty. Prasutagas's widow woman, Boadicea protested. A Romans had her flogged and her girl were publicly raped. Such public damnation enraged a Angles and Queen Boudicea raised a tribes witharound rising against the Roman rule - culminating inside kill in battle touching London.

Within 1974, Suffolk was split into five administrative districts, Suffolk Coastal, West Suffolk, Babergh, Forest Heath and Mid Suffolk with Suffolk Coastal's council based within Woodbridge, Babergh's in Hadleigh, Mid-Suffolk's within Needham Market, Outdoors Heath's around Mildenhall and West Suffolk's in Bury St Edmunds. There exists as well Waveney (with its council depending within Lowestoft) and Ipswich Borough which is a administrative council controlling the shire town.

Geology, landscape and ecology
Very much of Suffolk is online-lying in Eocene sand and clays. These rocks come comparatively unresistant and on the coast are eroded rapidly. Coastal defences stand been used to protect many towns, however many cliff-top houses have been wasted to coastal erosion it used to be that.

A west of the county lies in other immune Cretaceous Chalk. This chalk is the northerly-eastern extreme of the Southern England Chalk Formation that stretches from Dorset in the south west to Dover in the south east. A Chalk is less easy eroded and then forms a lone important hills in the county. A greatest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the greatest point of the Newmarket Ridge, near a village of Rede which reaches 128m (420ft).

Demographics
A Census 2001 Suffolk recorded a population of 668,548. Between 1981 and 2001 a population of the county grew by 13%, sustaining the district of Mid Suffolk growing fastest at 25%. A people incubation poronotus triacanthus largely to migration rather than natural increase. There is a super great people between a ages of 15 & 29 when a county has couple big towns & universities, though a 15 to 29 people within Ipswich is norm. There is the big people across a age of 35, & a larger than typical out people.

Cities, towns and villages
the stipulatory total of constituted communities around Suffolk varies greatly because of the heavy total of the almost non-wanting hamlets which might consist of good one domestic & a deconsecrated church: remnants of moneyed communities, a select few dating back to the early times of the Common era. Suffolk encompasses one of The virtually all ancient regions of the UK: A monastery in Bury St. Edmunds founded in 630AD, plotting of the Magna Carta in 1215; the oldest documented structural element of a still inhabited dwelling in Britain found in Clare.

This relatively recent grounds to believe is however the finale to the far flung cash settlement in the area shown by sooner archeologic grounds to believe of Mesolithic human when far back when c.7000BC, (Grimes Graves, Norfolk - a 5000 y/o flint mine) by using Roman settlements Lakenheath, Long Melford, later Bronze & Saxon settlements. Sutton Hoo: burial ground of the Anglo-Saxon heathen kings of East Anglia.

For a to the full listing of settlements watch the List of places in Suffolk.

Places of interest
Aldeburgh Festival Bury St Edmunds Breweries: Adnams and Greene King Clare Clare Castle Dedham Vale East Anglia Transport Museum Framlingham Castle Leiston Abbey Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum Orford Ness Otter Trust RSPB Stour Estuary Saxtead Green Post Mill Snape Maltings Southwold Lighthouse Sue Ryder Foundation Museum Suffolk Broads Suffolk Coast and Heaths Path Suffolk Heritage Coast Sutton Hoo The Broads National Park The Historic villages of Lavenham and Long Melford Flatford Mill around Constable Country

People from Suffolk
Alexander Deane John Constable Miss Black America St Edmund Sue Ryder (originally from Yorkshire) Thomas Paine