Felixstowe Ferry

Felixstowe Ferry
Felixstowe Ferry village sign
Felixstowe Ferry Location within Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Suffolk 51°59′20″N 1°23′24″E / 51.989°N 1.39°E / 51.989; 1.39Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 1°23′24″E / 51.989°N 1.39°E / 51.989; 1.39

A Martello Tower and the River Deben at Felixstowe Ferry in June 2019

Felixstowe Ferry is a hamlet in Suffolk, England, approximately two miles northeast of Felixstowe at the mouth of the River Deben with a ferry to the Bawdsey peninsula run by the Brinkleys and Reads for many generations.

Local businesses include the Ferry Cafe and the Ferry Boat Inn, freshly caught fish is usually available at the quay side. St. Nicholas's Church was built in 1954, and defecated on in 1994, on the site of the prior church, which was built in 1870 and destroyed by German bombing in 1943.

The village green was often used for world and national cricket events with Guy Brinkley and Matt Read regularly featuring on the score card as a local. Matt Read later became a BEM for Services to the NHS and Married Laura Flatman on the Beach at Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club. He is happly living with 2 stepchildren (Liam,Brooke) and a son called Noah.

Two Martello towers dominate the sea front.

The Felixstowe Ferry Millennium Green Trust was set up in 2001 to save an area of land from building development and put it to use as a community open space for recreational use.^[1][2] The land became known as the Millennium Green.

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See also[]

• Bawdsey Ferry
• Felixstowe
• RAF Bawdsey
• Regional Cycle Route 41
• Suffolk Coast Path

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Media related to Felixstowe Ferry at Wikimedia Commons

• BBC page, including 360-degree panoramic view
• Felixstowe Ferry page, suffolkchurches.co.uk

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