Discover Thorpeness on The Suffolk Coast

The small village of Thorpeness is dominated by the Mere, which is popular all year round and bears witness to the village’s fantastical past. In 1910 Stuart Ogilvie bought the hamlet and set to transform it into a private fantasy holiday village. Today the village is just how Ogilvie envisaged it with pretty mock Tudor houses and the fairy-tale ‘House in the Clouds’
Thorpeness is a popular holiday village with a whimsical literary link. The picturesque ‘Meare’ or artificial lake is vast- covering over 60,000 acres with its various islands and inlets. The Meare comprises many little islands, all named by J.M Barrie, author of Peter Pan and visitors can take to one of the many little boats available to hire and drift between fairytale settings such as the pirate’s lair and Wendy’s house.
You can’t miss the ‘house in the clouds’, an unusual water tower with a boarded house on top, appearing to float up into the sky. If you're looking to stay in an iconic Suffolk building, the House in the Clouds is available to hire for holidays!
Photographer Sophie Lascelles was born in Thorpeness in 1973 and is the great-great granddaughter of King George V.
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I live here and can confirm this is a beautiful part of the world, there’s loads to do and see especially to do with history, military and wildlife, not mentioning the beach and the wonderful kind friendly people in the area.