Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape : Bunkhouses, Hostels and Camping Barns

The Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape is a low-lying coastal landscape of shingle beaches, crumbling cliffs, marshes, estuaries, heathland, forests, and farmland. It stretches from the Stour estuary in North Essex, up to Kessingland in North Suffolk. There are picturesque countryside, towns and villages with a very distinctive ‘Suffolk’ character.

There are National Nature Reserves, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and the RSPB’s Minsmere Bird Reserve. The mudflats and creeks of the Stour, Deben, Blyth, Ore and Alde estuaries contain wildlife wetland sites and the wild, sandy stretches of ancient open heathland such as the Sandlings are a refuge for birds and butterflys.