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Fascinating Orford Ness
In autumn 2010 I visited Orford Ness on the Suffolk Coast with my family. This is an abandoned cold war military test site, now run by the National Trust. In order to get there you have to take a short ferry journey from the village of Orford itself. It really is a fascinating place — an empty landscape of abandoned buildings on a shingle spit, with the famous “pagoda” buildings dominating the attention. I imagine that in many ways its a bit like Dungeness in Kent but, having never been there, this is just a guess.
One way that it probably differs from Dungeness is that you can only take one ofRead more
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