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Lowestoft in SuffolkLowestoft is the most easterly town in Great Britain, situated in the county of Suffolk. Approximately 100 miles north of the London orbital motorway, the M25.Visit the official Lowestoft web site Sunrise Coast |
| The most easterly point in Britain is now marked with a representation of a compass. Around the outer metal ring, at the correct points of the compass, are the names of some towns and cities and their distances from Lowestoft in miles. See the lists below. |
Ness Point marker, viewed facing east
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The central metal disc from the Ness Point marker. |
Town and cities distances from Lowestoft in miles |
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North East segmentOslo 619Stockholm 788 Helsinki 1038 Tallin 1008 Copenhagen 491 Riga 945 Kaunas 922 Moscow 1468 Minsk 1070 Berlin 490 |
South East segmentWarsaw 814Amsterdam 133 Kiev 1244 The Hague 110 Kishinev 1255 Prague 572 Bratislava 738 Rotterdam 122 Budapest 841 Vienna 709 Bucharest 1246 Belgrade 1004 Sofia 1208 Zagreb 788 Ljubljana 725 Sarajevo 968 Skopje 1158 Athens 1460 Tirana 1140 Brussels 158 Luxembourg 274 Leichtenstein 506 San Marino 754 Rome 886 Berne 458 Valletta 1311 Ostend 101 Monte Carlo 668 Bouchaine 155 Dunkirk 104 Paris 253 Plaisir 268 (twinned with Lowestoft) Calais 106 Andorra 688 |
South West segmentPetit Couroune 233Madrid 873 Gibraltar 1183 Lisbon 1086 Channel Islands 285 London 106 Lizard 352 Lands End 364 Cardiff 224 |
North West segmentDublin 340Douglas 280 Belfast 348 Ardnamurchan Point 451 Edinburgh 316 Reykjavic 1175 Dunnet Head 472 John O' Groats 465 Thorshavn 764 |
SuffolkSuffolk covers an area of approximately 1500 square miles. To the north is the county of Norfolk, in the west lies Cambridgeshire and the southern border is with Essex. Suffolk also has 50 miles of coastline that faces the North Sea. Apart from the south western corner, most of the county is no more than 300 feet above sea level. Although it is by no means completely flat. |
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Have look at another up and coming Lowestoft site 
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© Paul Margetson 2008 |