Motorhome Hire Suffolk

Motorhome Hire in Suffolk, well Suffolk is a good place to start your motorhome holiday by jumping on a ferry in Harwich and getting over to Europe. Stenaline do Harwich to the Hook of Holland, which puts you at a great position to get somewhere different quickly.

About Suffolk

Suffolk is noted for having been the home to two of England’s best regarded painters, Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable – the Stour Valley area is branded as “Constable Country” and one of its most noted composers, Benjamin Britten. Other artists of note from Suffolk include the cartoonist Carl Giles (a bronze statue of his character “Grandma” to commemorate this is located in Ipswich town centre), poet Robert Bloomfield, writer and editor Ronald Blythe, actors Ralph Fiennes and Bob Hoskins, musician and record producer Brian Eno and Dani Filth, singer of the Suffolk-based extreme metal group, Cradle of Filth. Hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood is originally from Suffolk and the influential DJ and radio presenter John Peel made the county his home.

Suffolk’s contributions to sport include Formula One magnate Bernie Ecclestone and England footballers Terry Butcher, Kieron Dyer and Matthew Upson. Due to Newmarket being the centre of British horseracing many jockeys have settled in the county, including Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori.

Significant ecclesiastical figures from Suffolk include former Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury, Tudor Catholic cardinal Thomas Wolsey, and author, poet and Benedictine monk John Lydgate

Other significant persons from Suffolk include the Suffragette, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, Witch-finder General Matthew Hopkins and both Britain’s first female physician and mayor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Charity leader Sue Ryder settled in Suffolk and based her charity in Cavendish.

St Edmund

King of East Anglia and Christian martyr St Edmund (after whom the town of Bury St Edmunds is named) was killed by invading Danes in the year 869. St Edmund was the patron saint of England until he was replaced by St George in the thirteenth century.

2006 saw the failure of a campaign to have St Edmund named as the patron saint of England, but in 2007 he was named patron saint of Suffolk, with St Edmund’s Day falling on 20 November. His flag will be flown in Suffolk on that day.