Saxmundham is an historic market town at the centre of the
Heritage Coastal region in Suffolk, England. Saxmundham, or 'Sax'
as it is known locally, has many local shops and businesses, sports
and leisure facilities, as well as good rail links and the A12
trunk road that put the town within easy reach of Ipswich, Norwich,
London, and the whole of mainland Europe.
Saxmundham town boasts a large Waitrose supermarket, both a new
Primary school and a Middle school, a library, a Post Office, two
banks and a building society, a stationers, a health clinic, an
optician, a church and a chapel, a hotel (10 rooms &
restaurant), four pubs, a deli - bistro, an ironmongers, a
newsagent, an electrical shop, two garages selling petrol, five
hairdressers, a fish & chip shop, three restaurants (Thai,
Chinese & Indian), a cafe, two takeaways ( Chinese &
Greek), a dry cleaners, a bookshop, a cardshop, a museum, a baker,
a butcher (with a game licence), a farm shop, an angling shop and a
Wednesday Market day. Virtually all the shops are independents. It
also has a police station, an ambulance station and a fire
station.
A new development of over 600 homes just completed, has doubled
the population over the last few years.
This information is taken from the Town Council Website
(www.saxmundham.org) which was built by Andrew
Smith of Raining Data, and is currently updated jointly by the town
clerk and Cllr. John
Fisher.