Discover Dunwich

In The Fisherman's Hut, #Dunwich.
Fiona Gordon,artist.
Character pet portraits, artwork, Dunwich-themed gifts, tea towels, posters, cards
March 6-12.

Carpet of daffodils at Dingle, on the edge of #Dunwich Forest.

Exhibition of artwork by Patrick Will Barker, prints cards & #Dunwich-themed gifts, in The Fisherman's Hut in the Dunwich Beach car park, next to Flora Tea Rooms, ends 5 March.

Hairspray can with French language lettering only, found washed up on Dingle Beach, #Dunwich today. Looks like it's been at sea for while. (I've previously found dairy products packaging and ice lolly wrappers identifiably from Northern France washed up on Dunwich beaches after winter storms.)

Animal bone found on Dingle Beach, #Dunwich, this morning, awaiting identification.

The path to #Dunwich Greyfriars Wood is very muddy right now, but it's worth the walk. There are still thick carpets of snowdrops to be seen there.

Mystery object found on #Dunwich Beach 13/02/26. The finder thought it might be a land mine and called the Coastguard. Not heard any update so presumably whatever it is turned out to be harmless.

A very hairy, black caterpillar about 4 cm long, with a reddish-brown head, is crawling across an old cardboard envelope.

Found trudging around Dunwich Museum, a Cream-Spot Tiger moth (Arctia villica) caterpillar is filled with hairy, larval enthusiasm for the warm, damp weather and (one day) eating dead-nettles & dandelions.
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I am on duty at #Dunwich Museum on Wednesday 18/02/26. Do drop in if you are in the area.

Rare loggerhead turtle washed up in Suffolk during storm The warm-water turtle is assessed and taken to a specialist centre for treatment.

Rare leatherback turtle found "near-dead" on #Dunwich Beach, British Divers Marine Life Rescue called in and took him to Hunstanton Sea Life in Norfolk for recovery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the Coastal Path - exhibition by Patrick Will Baker at the Fisherman's Hut Gallery, next to the Flora Tea Rooms, #Dunwich, 13-19 Feb.

Explore Nature drop-in activities at #Dunwich Museum, Wed. 18 Feb. 2-4pm in the Reading Room, behind the Museum. Make wildflower seed bombs, plant herbs and succulents, try water testing. Get ready for Spring! All ages, donations will support future projects.

Greyfriars Wood with Greyfriars Monastery in the background, #Dunwich. Photo: David Cole.

Dunwich Museum is now open for all of the (#Suffolk) February half term - 14-22 Feb. then weekends only, 2pm-4pm, opening 7 days a week from April. #Dunwich

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Greetings from the 9th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, being held in the beautiful National Museums of Kenya

Fourth clifftop home at risk of falling into the sea demolished Council warns there are ‘no viable long-term solutions’ to stop the erosion

Demolition began 12/01/26 on another clifftop house in #Thorpeness, work brought forward due to rapid coastal erosion over the weekend. This is the fourth clifftop house in the village (down the coast from Dunwich) to be demolished this winter. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Several seals seen close to the beach at #Dunwich earlier today. Photo by our Museum Manager Jane Hamilton.

Nationally significant Anglo-Saxon burial ground found at Sizewell C site

"Nationally significant" Saxon tombs unearthed near Theberton, #Suffolk (5 miles from Dunwich) during Sizewell C construction.
Two "princely" burials and a horse buried in full harness. www.suffolk.gov.uk/council-and-...

A black & white photo view through doorway arch of the ruined church of All Saints' Church, Dunwich. The clifftop and sea beyond can be seen in the distance. The walls are made of rubble boulders - they would presumably once have been plastered.

A museum collection of rocks and fossils. Mammuthus meridionalis teeth and a proximal femoral ball can be seen, among other fossils collected from local beaches.

A black & white photo of a small collection of five flints, including an Acheulian biface. It is not clear whether the other specimens show signs of human working.

A black & white photo of a very strange object looking like some sort of rock.

Scanning the Docwra Collection of early C20th photos at Dunwich Museum, UK, is yielding fresh images of ship's ballast in the walls of now-vanished All Saints' Church; also geological specimens & palaeoliths now sadly missing from the collection - also a bizarre rubble pic which begs interpretation!

Council confirms eight more houses are at risk in Thorpness due to coastal erosion Council confirms eight more houses are at risk in Thorpness due to coastal erosion

“Totally shocked by the speed of it...what does this mean for East Anglia as a whole...the situation at Thorpeness highlights the growing challenge coastal communities face as erosion accelerates along the Suffolk shoreline"
#SayNo2SizewellC - too vulnerable
www.hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit...

The #Dunwich Museum is closed for the winter. Reopening 14th -22nd February 2026, 2pm-4pm and weekends in March 2026 2pm-4pm. Daily opening from 1 April 2026.

‘A watery gold sunrise lights the turbulent water’: the wild beauty of the Suffolk coast Coastal erosion may threaten the area around Southwold, but a new ‘movable’ cabin makes a great base for exploring its windswept beaches, remote marshes and welcoming inns

Holiday cabins on a former farm in Eastern Bavents (north of Dunwich. farm “no longer viable” due to coastal erosion) are designed to be moved inland when the coast erodes away.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Greyfriars Monastery, #Dunwich.

YouTube video by Paul Haworth Nightscape Journals 🌠GEMINIDS 2025 | A night of SHOOTING STARS | Astrophotography Adventure at Dunwich Beach |

The Gemenids meteor ☄️ shower of 2025 over #Dunwich Beach youtu.be/KYDSp3hix_o

In other #Suffolk archaeology news: recent discovery in a disused clay pit in Barnham, #Suffolk (near Thetford, on the Norfolk border) suggests human use of fire was 350,000 years earlier than previously thought. With thanks to @profgaretht.bsky.social
www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office...

Thanks! Will amend.

The last surviving buttress of All Saints was moved to the churchyard of the surviving St James's church in #Dunwich after the rest of the church fell over the Cliff in 1919. Bits of stonework thought to be from All Saints later brought up from the sea are on display in Dunwich Museum.

Photo of Dunwich from The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald.

This is/was All Saints' church at Dunwich. Dunwich once had approx 10 churches but devastating storms in the 13th and 14th century destroyed them (and the town). Also, longshore drift created a shingle bar across its once thriving harbour.
#Suffolk