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| Suffolk (pronounced 'suffuk') is a large, low-lying county in East Anglia in eastern England . It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich and other important towns are Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds . |  |
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| From 1889 to 1974 , Suffolk was split into two administrative counties, East Suffolk and West Suffolk , with East Suffolk's council based in Ipswich, and West Suffolk's in Bury St Edmunds. The county is low-lying with few hills, and is largely wetland habitat and arable land. The Suffolk Broads area is part of The Broads National Park, and the Suffolk Coast and Heaths is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
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The Suffolk Broads area is part of The Broads National Park . The Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Much of Suffolk is low-lying on Eocene sand and clays. These rocks are relatively unresistant and on the coast are eroded rapidly. Coastal defences have been used to protect several towns, but several cliff-top houses have been lost to coastal erosion in the past. |
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| The west of Suffolk lies on more resistant Cretaceous Chalk. This chalk is the north-eastern extreme of the Southern England Chalk Formation that stretches from Dorset in the south west to Dover in the south east. The Chalk is less easily eroded so forms the only significant hills in the county. The highest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the highest point of the Newmarket Ridge, near the village of Rede which reaches 128m (420ft). |  |
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