Thorpeness is a small seaside village just up the coast from Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The whole village was built as a model holiday village in what had been the old fishing hamlet of Thorpe, by a Scottish landowner - Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie.
The whole place is very pretty and unspoiled in a quaint English village kind of way, with a lovely large pond and Meare (lake) in the center. All the houses look similar - like something from hundreds of years past. A village lost in time.

The pebble beach is very close by and easily accessed via a short flat footpath from the car park near the pub.
Most famous for 'The House in the Clouds', a house built at the top of an old water tower.
There's also an old windmill, that used to pump water up to the old water tank, next to the raised house is equally interesting.