Haverhill, Suffolk

Haverhill is an industrial market town in the county of Suffolk, England, just next to the borders with Essex and Cambridgeshire. It's about 18 miles from Cambridge and 60 miles north of London. It is the second town of the borough of St Edmundsbury, and has a population of around 22,000.

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Suffolk - England - Essex - Cambridgeshire - Cambridge - London - St Edmundsbury

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Haverhill is actually an ancient town, with a market going back some 950 years, but most of its historical buildings have been lost. It does, however, retain one notable Tudor house and many interesting Victorian buildings. Nowadays, Haverhill is predominantly a modern and young town, having experienced a large influx of people through being designated an expansion town following World War II. The relatively small town centre is surrounded by many large housing developments, completed at various periods between the 1950s and the present. It is at quite a high elevation, being set on the chalk hills of the Newmarket Ridge.

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Tudor - Victorian building - World War II - 1950s - Newmarket Ridge

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