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Guided Tours of Suffolk's Past
Made in Suffolk
Processing Crops
Having produced a good crop, the farmer needed to sell it - usually to a company, who would mill it, brew it, bake it, or otherwise turn it into a product ready to sell on to the ultimate customer. Nowadays sugar beet factories dominate several flat landscapes - notably the approach to Bury St Edmunds, on the A14. |
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Before the 20 th century, windmills were the outstanding features of the landscape, along with the sloping roofs of oast houses, where hops were dried. Many of these old buildings have now been put to other uses. For example, the old oast house in Haughley, near Stowmarket, was used to house German prisoners at the end of World War II and is now the village hall.
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