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The unique Martello Tower (knows as tower CC) is 4 towers joined together and the largest and northernmost of 103 defensive towers built between 1808 and 1812 to resist a Napoleonic invasion. Suffolk at one time had 18 towers. Many have been destroyed (e.g. pulled down for their masonry) whilst others converted into homes or put to other uses. This tower is now used as holiday apartments. The Martello Tower is the only surviving building of the fishing village of Slaughden, which had been washed away by the North Sea by 1936.
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The curious Fort Green Mill is a four-storey windmill converted to residential use.
The lifeboat station houses a RNLI houseboat which can be viewed from the outside by the public.
Music, theatre, dance, comedy, lectures, conferences, educational events.
Full programme of films, live screenings and special events.
Stretching north past Thorpeness and south into Orford Ness, it is almost exclusively shingle (pebbles), except for small tracts of rough sand between breakwaters.