Things to do in and around Southwold
Southwold Pier is a privately owned, family run pier, catering for the large number of visitors Southwold receives each year. After years of storm damage and neglect, the pier itself has been completely rebuilt so today visitors can enjoy all the fun of the traditional seaside pier.
Southwold Pier...>>For over 100 years the workers of this shop and museum have been cutting, polishing and shaping the local amber, which is found uniquely in England on this particular coastline. The Amber Shop is Great Britain's oldest and largest specialist, dealing not only in modern amber but also antique and second-hand, including all forms of jewellery, carvings and objects d'art.
Southwold's unique cottage museum is dedicated to the local and natural history of this corner of Suffolk. The whole span of history is here, from fossil remains through sea battles, the development of the town's architecture, its industries and artistic life, the rise and fall of its railway, its famous land-locked lighthouse, its ever-changing coastline... to the 20th century transformation of this busy fishing community into a prosperous seaside resort, local wildlife and natural history.