Thorpeness beach Suffolk
Thorpenss was a small fishing hamlet until the late 19th century, and a reputed being a route for smugglers into East Anglia. However in 1910, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, a Scottish barrister who had made his money designing railways around the world, bought the entire area from north of Aldeburgh to beyond Sizewell up the coast and extending well inland. He developed Thorpeness into a private fantasy holiday village, to which he invited friends' and colleagues' families during the summer months. Many holiday homes, were built in Jacobean and Tudor Revival styles. Thorpeness railway station, provided by the Great Eastern Railway to serve what was expected to be an expanding resort, was opened a few days before the outbreak of World War I. It was little used, except by golfers, and closed in 1966.
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