Landmark:

Belle Vue Park

Location:

Belle Vue Park, Carts Score, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

Belle Vue Park consists of beautiful gardens which involve walking past the thatched lodge.


The park was the site of a battery of cannon, later becoming a communal drying ground until opening as a park 1874 when it was laid out as an arboretum. represent the three batteries that once protected the town.

Landmark:

Crown Meadow

Location:

Lowestoft Town Footbal Club, Crown Meadow, Love Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32 2PA

Description:

Crowned champions of the Ridgeons Premier League for 2005/2006 season!


Crown Meadow, Home of the Mighty Blues or Trawler Boys, is situated in a residential area, so beware parking can be difficult.


The ground itself is rather sparse on three sides, but has a very impressive stand on the other. This stand is fully covered, and offers shelter for around 1000 standing fans.


There is a small tea bar which is usually open an hour or so before the game, and remains so until just before the final whistle.

There is also hot & cold drinks, and home made pies as well as the usual selection of crisps and confectionery.


The social club/club house, offers lots of beer and alcoholic beverages as per usual pub opening hours.

This club house also provides hot bar snacks/basket meals, which are very good value.

There is also a club shop, which is open before the game and half time, with all the usual great merchandise on sale.

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Fen Park

Location:

Fen Park, Southwell Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR33 0RQ

Description:

Fen Park has play equipment for children and a basketball hoop. You can also feed the ducks and walk the dog (make sure you poop scoop though!).



The newly revamped play equipment at Fen Park in Southwell Road, Lowestoft, is a great place for famillies to take children for fun. There are also promises from the local council of even greater improvements to follow.


The project to improve Fen Park is part of the Big Lottery’s ‘Transforming Your Space’ programme and further plans for the area include an exciting ‘sensory garden’. This is being developed in partnership with local schools which is providing children with the opportunity to have their say on the park’s new look

Landmark:

Lowestoft Beaches

Location:

Lowestoft Beaches, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

Lowestoft North of Claremont Pier, Lowestoft South of Claremont Pier Resort beaches were each awarded an ENCAMS Blue Flag Award and ENCAMS Seaside (Resort) Award. The beaches have won awards that prove that Lowestoft's Coast has achieved the highest levels of cleanliness and safety possible.


Lowestoft is at the heart of The Sunrise Coast and is famous for its multi award winning beaches and rich maritime connections.


It is the perfect holiday destination for the young and the young at heart. The town perfectly blends wide sandy beaches on the one side and wooded broadland on the other, giving the town an exclusive appeal for both new and returning visitors.


Lowestoft´s beaches have won many awards for quality and cleanliness and are considered to be some of the very best in Northern Europe.


The esplanade running alongside the beach combines various indoor and outdoor attractions and facilities.


The seafront has the luxury of having two piers: the South Pier (to the north) and the Claremont Pier (to the south), which both provide traditional seafront amusements, eating places and themed bars.

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Lowestoft Churches

Location:

Lowestioft Churches, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32

Description:

Lowestoft is Suffolk's second largest town, and fourth or fifth biggest in all East Anglia, depending on which borders you use for that hazily-defined region. But Lowestoft isn't a place you pass through, being as it is the most easterly settlement in the British Isles. Simply, it is different from other places.


Lowestoft, even more than Ipswich, is a red-brick 19th century town. Unlike Ipswich, the original town was at the heart of a cluster of villages, and these have been fully absorbed into the urban area, with the consequence that the modern Borough contains no less than seven medieval churches, as many as a big city like Leicester.

Another thing that makes the town a little unusual is that the main church in the town centre isn't an Anglican one, but the gorgeous Catholic church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, with the finest Art Nouveau church interior in East Anglia. Our Lady's presence is accentuated by the fact that it is Suffolk's biggest Catholic church.


Lowestoft's historic Anglican parish church of St Margaret is now stranded out on the western edge of the town centre, because, while the sea has cut into much of the Suffolk coast, destroying settlements, at Lowestoft it has actually moved outwards. The Denes industrial estate, to the east of the High Street, was under water 400 years ago. Many are those who would wish it back there. St Margaret is probably the least known of the great Suffolk churches, being built as part of the same group as Southwold and Blythburgh, the second of which it much resembles.


These are the two major churches of Lowestoft. Let us continue our tour north of the river, by exploring the Anglican churches in the rest of the town centre. The Denes industrial area to the east of the High Street is served by Christ Church. The terraces to the north of it were served by St Peter. Both of these churches were built in the 1830s in a carpenter's gothic style; but St Peter was demolished in the 1970s, a sad loss, after failing to find a new use after redundancy. Christ Church has lost virtually all the housing in its parish, but survives because of the demand for its firebrand evangelical protestantism. Also in the town centre is St Andrew, Roman Hill. This is perhaps the most curious modern church in Suffolk, looking like nothing so much as a small factory.


Immediately south of the river, within a hundred yards of the High Street, stood the mighty citadel of St John. This was one of the biggest 19th century churches in East Anglia, and its demolition in the 1970s was a most grievous loss - it was a late Victorian jewel, and nothing whatsoever of it survives. On this side of the river, we are in the historic parish of Kirkley, where the parish church of St Peter is a most curious rebuilding and expansion of the 18th and 19th centuries. Moving southwards, we enter the historic parish of Pakefield, with its row upon row of terraced houses. Surprisingly, it was only incorporated into the Borough as late as the 1930s, after its stubborn independence had meant it was unable to provide efficient sea defences, with consequent considerable loss of life. Here is the most curious All Saints and St Margaret, effectively two parish churches joined together. Nearby stands the Catholic St Nicholas. This is also unusual, since, although it was built by the same architect as Our Lady, it spent the first 80 years of its life as a Congregationalist church.


We are hard against the coast here, in the most southern tip of the urban area. If we continue clockwise, we re-enter dense 19th century terraces. This is Morton Peto's industrialised suburb of Oulton Broad, which somewhat optimistically takes its name from the beautiful lake to its north. Nineteenth Century St Mark here is grim, but at least it has survived. The 1960s church of St Luke, however, is another curiosity, set in suburban avenues, and probably Suffolk's politest Anglican church. Oulton Broad was originally in the parish of Carlton Colville, scene of Lowestoft's busiest expansion in recent years. St Peter is a pretty Victorian rebuilding among the semis.


Continuing clockwise, crossing the river, and going to the west of lovely Normanton Park, we are in the historic suburb of Oulton, where we find medieval St Michael, an unusual cruciform church. This is right on the edge of the Borough, and beyond its graveyard the marshes stretch into Norfolk. Oulton was home to the Lowestoft area workhouse, and the workhouse chapel still survives. This is all now polite suburbia, and as we continue clockwise it is almost a relief to re-enter the sixties estates. Not far from the spire of the already-visited St Margaret we enter the historic parish of Gunton, where the church of St Benedict is a post-war chapel of ease to this huge and challenging estate. Crossing the road, it all gets a bit more polite again, and St Peter is Suffolk's only urban round-towered church, with lots of evidence of its Norman past. Just beyond it are the delights of the Pleasurewood Hills theme park. It only remains then to head northwards, where the marshes and the heathlands conspire into Corton, home of holiday camps and St Bartholomew, one of Suffolk's great ruined towers. Now, we are almost in Norfolk.


Please visit www.suffolkchurches.co.uk for greater detail of Lowestoft's Historic Religious past.

Landmark:

Lowestoft Fountains

Location:

Lowestoft Fountains, Royal Plain, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR22 0AP

Description:

An exciting development to the seafront at Lowestoft is the 'Royal Plain Fountains'.


The fountains consist of 74 individual interactive water jets with variable lighting, which forms a striking centrepiece to the recently enhanced Royal Plain area.


The fountains shall provide interactive play for children of all age's and forms an illuminated spectacle during the evening hours.

Landmark:

Lowestoft Lifeboat

Location:

Lowestoft Lifeboat, South Pier, lowestoft, suffolk, UK, NR33 0AE

Description:

Lowestoft is one of the oldest lifeboat stations in the British Isles.


It was founded in 1801, twenty-three years before the Lifeboat Service itself was established. Its first lifeboat was built by Henry Greathead who, twelve years before, had built for South Shields the famous Original, the first lifeboat of all.


Then six years later Lowestoft took her place in the history of the lifeboats by having the first sailing lifeboat. Greathead's had all been rowing boats. This first sailing lifeboat was built for the Suffolk Humane Society by Sparham of Lowestoft under the superintendence of Lional Lukin, a London coachbuilder.


That boat (her name was Frances Anne ) was the first of the great fleet of sailing lifeboats which served on our coasts for over 140 years. It was not until December 1948 that the last of them was replaced by a motor lifeboat.


The Lowestoft lifeboat Michael Stephens was among the nineteen of the Institution's boats, which went over to Dunkirk in 1940 to help in bringing off the British Expeditionary Force. She was not manned by her own crew but by officers and men of the Navy.


The Michael Stephens worked in Dunkirk Harbour itself, carrying men through the crowded darkness to the ships outside. She was twice rammed by motor torpedo boats but she went on with her work and returned to Dover under her own power.


Bronze Second-Service clasp awarded to Coxswain John Catchpole and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum accorded to Second Coxswain/Mechanic Shane Coleman when three people were rescued from the yacht Red House Lugger and the vessel saved after being in difficulties 30 miles SE of Lowestoft in rough seas, an estimated twenty foot swell and storm force winds on the 29 August 1997.


Thirty-nine RNLI medals have been awarded, two Gold, 21 Silver and 16 Bronze, the last being voted in 1997.

In 2001 Lowestoft lifeboat station celebrates its bicentenary, and has been awarded a special Vellum to commemorate the event.


The lowestoft lifeboat station is situated on the lowestoft south pier the station boasts a crew room, workshop, changing room for the crew to get in to there gear before boarding the lifeboat. The station also has a lovely Souvenir shop.

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Landmark:

Lowestoft Lighthouse

Location:

Lowestoft Lighthouse, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

Established in 1609, Lowestoft Lighthouse was the first Lighthouse built by the Corporation of Trinity House.

Originally two candle-powered lights were built on the foreshore to guide vessels safely through the Stamford Channel into the port of Lowestoft.


The Lighthouse is situated 1.6km north of Lowestoft town centre and Car parking is available in the town centre, as there is limited street parking.

Opening Times for 2006
Day Date Time
1st Saturday of every month April - August 12 - 3.30pm

These opening times may vary subject to operational requirements.


Admission Prices for 2006
Adults £2
Senior Citizens, Young Persons (2-18yrs) and Students £1.50
Family Ticket
(2 adults & up to 3 children) £6


Contact Details
Telephone: 01255 245011
Email: Chris.Flowerdew@thls.org


Groups
Please phone in advance for group bookings of 8 or more.


Safety
Please read our Health & Safety Notice (listed left) to ensure you make the most of your visit to Lowestoft lighthouse.


Specifications
Established 1609
Height of Tower 16M
Height of Light above Mean High Water 37M
Electrified 1938
Automation 1975
Optic 4th Order, 250mm Twin Spectacle
Lamp 70w Osram Powerstar
Character Fl (1)15s
Intensity 380,000 Candela
Range of Light 23Nm

tours of Lowestoft are conducted by the Lighthouse Attendant, under licence from the Corporation of Trinity House.

Landmark:

Lowestoft Scores

Location:

Lowestoft Scores, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

The Scores are a unique feature of Lowestoft. They are a series of narrow lanes created over the years by people wearing paths in the soft, sloping cliff as they travelled between the historic High Street and the Beach Village. The origin of the word 'score' is thought to be a corruption of 'scour', or possibly from the Old English 'scora', which means to make or cut a line.


Although the Beach Village is no more, the Scores are still of great interest to visitors. The Scores trail has been designed to help visitors to understand a little more of Lowestoft's history and of the significance of these ancient pathways leading down to the sea. You find your way around the trail by reading the map in the leaflet or by following the red herring waymarkers.

Leaflets are available from the East Point Pavilion (tel: 01502 533600) and various High Street shops.


The Ravine
Now a road running down to the Dene's caravan site and car park, the Ravine borders Belle View Park and Sparrow's Nest Gardens and can best be viewed from the impressive Victorian footbridge that spans the Ravine.


Cart Score
Previously known as Gallow's or Gibbet Score, Cart Score is now also a road linking the Denes and the A12.


Lighthouse Score
Once called Lighthouse Hill, Lighthouse Score gets its name from the Lighthouse that still looks out over the North Sea from its lofty position on the cliff above Sparrow's Nest Gardens.


Mariners Score
Earlier called Swan's Score due to the Swan Inn which stood there. This was the inn where Cromwell stayed when he visited the town to put down 'malignants'.


Crown Score
Formally known as Lion Score because records show that the Lion Inn was on the corner of this score and the High Street. The score has 48 steps and is flanked by brick and pebble walls, which are very characteristic in this part of the country. The score is also home to the 'invasion of crabs' sculpture, which is one of a series of works by artist Paul Amey designed to augment the Scores Trail. The design is to suggest that the crabs, having escaped the fishmonger's slab, are threatening an assault on the High Street.


Martin's Score
Originally known as Gowing's Score until 1850. The score is best known for two reasons. The first records the visit of John Wesley on the 11th October 1764. Wesley preached in the open air with his back to a garden wall. In his journal he noted, "A wider congregation I have never seen".

The second, which cannot be substantiated, concerns the small post set against a wall on the south side. Originally put there in 1688, and has since been reviewed in 1788, 1888and 1998. The post bears the initials 'TM' and is commonly known as the 'Armada Post'.


Rant Score
The name of the score has been connected to a Christopher Rant who owned property at the top or bottom of the score in the early seventeenth century.


Wilde Score
The Heritage Workshop Centre can be found on Wilde Score. Named after the Wilde family who lived in the Flint House from 1588 to the 1740's when John Wilde left in trust, money for the building of a schoolhouse for the free education of boys from fishing families. A school remained there until WWII when it was bombed. Part of the old school still remains and has been converted into The Lowestoft Heritage Workshop Centre.


The bottom of the Score was blocked and the cottages at the bottom were demolished to allow the development of Birds Eye. The Score now turns right into Cumberland Place and then winds down past the shoal of herring to Whapload Road.


Maltsters Score
Named after the Folly Maltsters Public House.


Spurgeon Score
Named after a worthy of the town.


Herring Fishery Score
The name is taken from an earlier name of the pub at the top of the score.


Frosts Alley Score
Now covered by the new police station, this was the oldest score and said to have been the seaward end of a prehistoric pathway.


The Score
This ran from the back of the vicarage, south of Arnold House, to Whapload Road. Access to the High Street was via the private garden of the house and was only used for emergencies, such as flooding in the Beach Village.


It was the vicarage to St. Margaret's Church. The Rev. Cunningham was vicar there between 1830 and 1860, and he was married to the sister of Elizabeth Fry, the famous prison reformer.

Landmark:

Ness Point

Location:

Ness Point, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32 1JG

Description:

The most easterly point in Britain, know as Lowestoft Ness is marked by the Euroscope a unique circular platform that shows the and distances of major European towns and Great Britain's other cardinal points.


You can experience some stunning views of the landscape from here, as well as knowing you are the most easterly land dwelling human in the country at the same time!

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Nicholas Everitt Park

Location:

Nicholas Everitt Park

Description:

Providing recreational and leisure facilities for the local community and visitors to the district.

The park frontage overlooks the Suffolk Broads and during the summer powerboat racing on Thursday Evenings and some weekends attracts many visitors to the park.


In close proximity to the park include a range of restaurants, public houses, hotels, local shopping and a frequent train service that runs into the town centre.


The park is open all year round from dawn to dusk and facilities include:


landscaped gardens and grassed areas

1 bowling green (6 rinks) open from early May to late September

4 tennis courts open all year round although the hours are restricted during the winter (October to March)

play area

café/restaurant

museum

yacht club

yacht station

water sports centre

band stand

public toilets

The park also hosts a number of events/galas over the year

How to Contact us

General enquiries: 01502 523571,
bowls and tennis: 01502 564289 (summer) and 01502 523470 (winter)

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North Denes

Location:

North Denes, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32 4PL

Description:

The Denes with great views of the sea and cliffs.


Also an area marked with unique posts and rails used for hanging nets, ropes and fishing gear to dry. On the right are the old net stores and fish houses, now used for a variety of commercial purposes.


Walk past the modern Birds Eye Walls frozen food factory, the modern way to deal with the products of the sea, and turn left along Wilde's Street. At the junction of Newcombe Road you will find JT Cole, the last fish smoke house in the beach area.

Landmark:

Sparrows Nest & Gardens

Location:

Sparrows Nest & Gardens, Whapload Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32 1UX

Description:

The Sparrow's Nest gardens are in the North Denes area of Lowestoft, near the seafront.

The gardens were once part of a private estate, owned by Robert Sparrow. The council bought the gardens in the 1890's and the tea rooms now occupy the site where the big house once stood.


In the early part of the last century the gardens became very popular for alfresco events and concerts. In 1913 the Borough of Lowestoft commissioned the Pavilion Theatre, which seated 1,300.


On 3rd September 1939 the Royal Navy commandeered the theatre and the grounds to set up the HQ for the Royal Navy Patrol Service, known as HMS Europa. The Royal Naval Patrol Service Association museum is now in the grounds. There is a memorial to sailors lost at sea and it bears the names of 2,385 sailors.


The pavilion was demolished in 1988 and only the booking office remains - now a camcorder and cine club.


The gardens are landscaped with a kiddies play area, two bowling greens, a cafe, a pub, museums and public toilets.

Landmark:

Suffolk's first Wind Turbine

Location:

Wind Turbine, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32 1JG

Description:

A large wind turbine, built in December 2004, is located by the sea on the edge of town.



The construction of the wind turbine began on Tuesday 7 December 2004 with a 108 m high crane lifting the 71 tonne Tower Lower Section. The 65 tonne Tower Middle Section, 46 tonne Tower Top Section, 83 tonne nacelle and 54 tonne, 92 m diameter Rotor Blade Assembly were erected on Friday 10 December 2004.

The new turbine began generating electricity in January 2005 and has a generating capacity of up to 2.75 MW, although the original proposal was for an even bigger 3.2 MW turbine.


The hub height is 80 m (262 ft). The blade tip height is 126 m (413 ft). The nacelle assembly weighs 83 tonnes and is 11.2 m (37 ft) long, 3.3 m (11 ft) wide, 3.8 m (12.5 ft) high, making it the biggest wind turbine on mainland UK as of April 2005.


Each of the 3 blades weighs 10 tonnes and is 44.8 m (147 ft) long. The overall diameter of the rotor assembly is 92 m (301 ft).

The blade tips slice through the air at about 150 miles per hour. The turbulence this generates accounts for the pulsating "whooshing" noise audible when you stand underneath.

A real landmark to see on your visits!

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Landmark:

The Bascule Bridge

Location:

Bascule Bridge, London Road South, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

The Bascule Bridge is in cenral lowestoft, where the sea meets the river.


People who live in Lowestoft May not agree (ocassional traffic jams!), but the sight of a ship sailing through Lowestoft Harbour and under Bascule Bridge is often a wonderful sight!



The Bascule Bridge was a new structure, constructed in 1974 to replace a swing bridge owned and operated by the British Transport Docks Board.


Associated British Ports carry out weekly inspections of the Bascule Bridge. The A12 is closed overnight on four occasions annually, once per quarter, to allow routine maintenance work to be carried out.

The annual budget for operating and maintenance for 1999/2000 was £223,250.00.

Landmark:

The Easterling Walk

Location:

The Easterling Walk, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

A short but remarkably varied and contrasting walk leading to Lowestoft Ness, the most easterly point in Britain. The location was celebrated in the 1950s by an East Suffolk line express train named 'The Easterling' which brought holidaymakers from London non-stop Beccles, where it divided for Yarmouth and Lowestoft.



After visiting the Lowestoft Museum in Nicholas Everitt Park, walkers can enjoy breezy views across the open expanses of Oulton Broad, cross an attractive Dutch style lifting bridge designed for pedestrians and cyclists, tunnel below a railway near Carlton Swing Bridge and cross the slipways of busy boatyards fronting Lake Lothing. The wide open spaces of Normanston Park contrast with the incised 'linear park' on the alignment of an old railway, leading to St Margaret's, one of Suffolk's finest churches. From the churchyard the distant North Sea can be glimpsed. The lighthouse stands on an elevated cliff top below which Lighthouse Score, one of a series of fascinating alleyways descending the cliff face, leads down to the Denes, an open area traditionally associated with the repair of fishing nets. The fascinating Maritime Museum, the sea wall and Lowestoft Ness are close by.



Walk planning


Allow a minimum of 2 hours, but much longer if church and museums are to be visited and the network of 'scores' explored.
Museum opening times:
Lowestoft Museum, Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad tel 01502 511457

Lowestoft Maritime Museum tel 01502 561963

Route finding - key points (numbers refer to points on the route diagrams)


1 Steps down to Marsh Road. Follow road, passing holiday village entrance.
2 Go through gap R, just before right angle bend in road, then half R across grassed area to join network of surfaced paths in Nicholas Everitt Park. Follow paths nearest water's edge. (Very occasionally entry to park may be restricted for special events, when an entrance fee may be charged. See local notices.)
3 Cross lifting bridge. Use pedestrian/cyclist underpass to cross main road.
4 Footpath sign next to tanning shop (near library) marks start of path to Lowestoft. Follow between high fences and under railway arch, emerging to cross front of boat yards. At one point path goes below a gantry crane! Take care when crossing rails on inclined slipways.
5 Cross railway by stepped footbridge. Follow cycle/pedestrian path R towards town centre.
6 Path continues opposite Peto Way pelican crossing.
7 At path junction (Sustrans sign) go L towards Gunton along Gt Eastern Linear Park.
8 Up steps towards sports centre, then into nearby St Margaret's churchyard; St Margaret's Road leads towards lighthouse.
9 Entrance to Lighthouse Score, leading down to Maritime Museum and path across Denes to sea wall and Ness.
10 Continue along sea wall, then R along Hamilton Rd. to reach town centre.

Landmark:

The Lowestoft Train Station walk

Location:

Lowestoft Train Station, Station Square, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

Description:

Station walk


Background


Lowestoft station stands in Station Square, quite centrally in the town and in a difficult position to reach the countryside. This walk is therefore a town trail exploring the old north part of the town as distinct from the later Victorian part to the south.


There are a number of leaflets about the town available at the Tourist Information Centre, a place visited on the first part of the walk. The Station was probably designed by John Thomas to resemble the original Norwich Thorpe station and erected in 1854. Today it forms the terminal junction for the East Suffolk Railway and the Wherry Line linking with Norwich and Great Yarmouth.



Walk Route


From the station turn right over Lowestoft Bridge (1), the third bridge to be built at this point. The first was opened in 1830 when a cut was made from Lake Lothing to the sea, the second was opened in 1897 and called Victoria Bridge and the present structure was opened in 1972. Follow London Road South as far as the first pedestrian crossing and turn left, using other pedestrian crossings to reach the East Point Pavilion (2), housing the Tourist Information Centre. The south side of the town was developed by Sir Samuel Morton Peto in the 19th century as a holiday resort to rival Brighton and a leaflet describing the Peto Trail is available inside.


Return back across the bridge, at the other side, on the corner of Waveney Road, stands the former Tuttles department store (3) with its ornate front. Walk through the centre of the town along London Road North, now partly pedestrianised, to The Prairie (4), a narrow arcade on the left next to WH Smiths. This is so called because it is thought to have once been part of a private estate where deer roamed and is now part of the Britten Centre. At the junction with Gordon Road stands St. Margaret's Villa (5), built in the Italian style for the Rev. Charles Herbert, who was Rector of Lowestoft from 1860 to 1870. It later became the residence of Colonel Seppings JP, the first provisional Mayor of the town.


After passing the United Reform Church (6) built in 1852 we come to the Wheatsheaf pub (7) on the corner of Herring Fishery Score. The pub was once known as the Herring fishery and was owned by the Old Company of Beachmen. This section of the town is built on the cliffs and access to the shore was through the many Scores or alleyways that lead down the beach area. A leaflet describing the Lowestoft Score Trail is also available from the Tourist Information Centre.



Triangle Plain Market (8) was once the main shopping centre and marks the start of the High Street. The Old Blue Anchor Stores pub (9) stands on the corner of Dukes Head Street, formerly Blue Anchor Lane, and has the longest pub name in Lowestoft. On the right is Martin's Score (10) where an information board is displayed describing the Armada Post, put down to mark the defeat of the Spanish Armada 100 years after the event.


The Town Hall (11) dates from 1860 and is built on the site of the old Chapel of Ease, a curfew bell tolls out every night at 8 o'clock on a bell made from brasses taken from the parish church in 1644. The Royal Falcon (12) is looking a little less royal these days but was formerly North Flint House, said to have been built about 1551. It was once the home of Sir Thomas Allin, the Lowestoft Admiral, who on retirement bought Somerleyton House.



Walk on to reach the lighthouse known as High Light (13), given this name to distinguish it from the Low Light, the light that was on the beach until 1925.

The lighthouse was opened in 1874 and became fully automatic in 1975. Coal was used to power the lights until 1788, then oil was used until 1938 when electricity was installed.


Cross Cart Score and enter Belle Vue Park (14), walking past the thatched lodge to the War Memorial (15). The park was the site of a battery of cannon, later becoming a communal drying ground until opening as a park 1874 when it was laid out as an arboretum. The war memorial was erected after World War II and stands on the site of a former band stand, the three cannons probably represent the three batteries that once protected the town.



Turn left at the war memorial and then right across the Ravine Bridge (16), erected in 1887 to Commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Turn right along North Parade to the corner and right down a set of steps to the Ravine at the junction with Cart Score. To the left is Denes Oval (17), the home of Lowestoft Cricket Club and once the town's allotments.




Enter the Sparrow's Nest Park, where there is the
opportunity for refreshments, and walk down past the Armada Beacon to the exit on Whapload Road. Turn right to the Lowestoft and East Suffolk Maritime Museum (18), housed in the bowling green cottage, formerly a house provided by the church for a church warden.



Continuing south, on the other side of the road are The Denes (19), an area marked with unique posts and rails used for hanging nets, ropes and fishing gear to dry. On the right are the old net stores and fish houses, now used for a variety of commercial purposes. Walk past the modern Birds Eye Walls frozen food factory (20), the modern way to deal with the products of the sea, and turn left along Wilde's Street. At the junction of Newcombe Road you will find JT Cole (21), the last fish smoke house in the beach area.


Return to Whapload Road and turn left to Christ Church (22), built in 1869 for the beachmen and fishermen as a monument to the Rev. Francis Cunningham MA, a former vicar of Lowestoft.
Continue on to Hamilton Road and turn left to view the Hamilton Dock (23), the last dock to be built and opened by Lord Claude Hamilton in 1903. Return to the roundabout and turn left along Battery Green Road, the site of the South Battery (24) where, in 1782, about 300 men manned a fort with 13 pieces of cannon.


Walk on past the Bethel fisherman's church (25) built in 1899 to Waveney Road with a good view of the Trawl Basin (26) through the railings. The Trawl basin was opened in 1865, to the north of it lies the Waveney Dock (27), opened in 1883 by Lord Waveney. At the junction with Station Square return to the start of the walk at the station.

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Landmark:

Triangle Market

Location:

Triangle Market

Description:

To the north of this historic town you will find the idyllic Historic High Street & Triangle Market Place. Which offer's a wide range of traditional, independent and unusual retail outlets.


The Triangle Market Place with its unique architectural market canopies 'The Eastern Sails' hold regular specialist/weekly markets and various events throughout the year. Also very close to the Triangle Tavern if you fancy a pint to cool off.


Check our events pages for upcoming events!

Landmark:

War Memorial

Location:

Belle Vue Park, Cart's Score, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, NR32 4PH

Description:

The war memorial was erected after World War II and stands on the site of a former band stand, the three cannons probably represent the three batteries that once protected the town.