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Waveney and now consists of fresh water, and occupies 110 acres ; it is 

 surrounded by marshes. 



Thorpe Mere occupies an area of 1000 acres, and is divided into 

 two parts by a wall of earth. The fresh water lakes and broads are 

 ^few and of small extent, and are nearly all in East Suffolk. At Fritton 

 is a well- wooded lake of over 500 acres, but Barnby, Easton, Benacre, 

 Covehithe and Dunwich Broads are all small. Bosmere is about 8 acres 

 in extent, and Rushmere, near the Deben, is of small area. At Hol- 

 brooke and Tattlngstone are ornamental lakes of a few acres each in 

 extent. The lakes of West Suffolk have most of them been artificially 

 enlarged. The largest is Ampton and Livermere, 2 miles long, 75 acres 

 in extent and there is one at Redgrave of 46 acres. Small pieces of 

 water occur at Culford, Fornham and Drinkstone. Barton Mere, near 

 Pakenham, extends over 12 acres ; Broadmere and Coruard Mere are 

 very small. 



Suffolk is very flat : no rocks occur and the hills are few and incon- 

 siderable. A somewhat hilly district, known as Westleton Walks, 

 extends inland from the Dunwich Cliffs towards Theberton and 

 Middleton. The hills are irregular in form with winding valleys, and 

 are clothed with ling, brake and furze. A range of low hills and 

 grassy denes extends from Lowestoft towards Yarmouth, while the 

 hills of Pakefield and Kessingland trend Southward to Sole Bay and 

 Easton Broad. The highest ground in the County is in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lawshall ; the flattest in the neighbourhood of the Lark and 

 Little Ouse and between Beccles and Oulton Broad. 



On the coast is much sand and shingle ; especially atOrford Beach, 

 the acreage of which is probably larger than anything else of the kind 

 on the East Coast. There are mud flats and salt marshes, especially 

 near Aldeburgh. 



The Coast is remarkable for the extent of its tidal estuaries and its 

 bays, havens and creeks ; but there are no cliffs of any great height ; 

 at Felixstowe and Bawdsey the cliffs are of Red Crag resting on clay, 

 but those at Dunwich are of more recent beds. 



The character of the surface is much varied and consists of un- 

 dulating fields and flat plains, the fields are sometimes very large and 



