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Long Melford is a large village in Suffolk. It flanks the River Stour, roughly halfway along its course between Cambridgeshire and the North Sea at Harwich. It is close to Sudbury.
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Good selection of beers.
Hotel & Restaurant
AA 3*.
Hotel & Restaurant
Family-run 17th-century inn with restaurant offering a full à-la-carte menu for dinner & lunch.
Family-run 2-room B&B.
By train
The nearest railway station is at Sudbury, part of the National Rail network throughout Great Britain. It is around away by road.
By car
The bypasses Long Melford. Use this route from: Colchester, Sudbury, King's Lynn, the A11 from Norwich, Thetford, the A14, and Bury St Edmunds.
By bike
Suffolk is mostly flat with some gentle hills to the west of Long Melford. The village itself is on a moderately steep slope.
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