The magnet of the prospect of exciting food in a delightful hotel will draw us out of our crowded corner of the South East; a 200 miles’ round trip was well worth the agonies of the Dartford Crossing and the M25.
One of the great benefits of Lavenham is that it is not really on the way to anywhere for most people. This village has grown to be a small town but the centre still has the feeling of a village community. This is possibly because so many of the houses in the centre are of the same Tudor period as there are over 350 Listed buildings from the very grand Guildhall to former bothies. They must share the same endless problems of living in delightful but high maintenance houses. If Lavenham had been in the Home Counties, property developers would be salivating at the numerous sites that th
