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Extract from the Lavenham Travel Guides:
Seven miles from Sudbury, off the A134, lies
LAVENHAM
, formerly a centre of the region's wool trade and today one of the most visited villages in Suffolk, thanks to its unrivalled ensemble of perfectly preserved half-timbered houses. The whole place has changed little since the demise of the wool industry in the seventeenth century, owing in part to a zealous local preservation society, which has carefully maintained the village's antique appearance by banning from view such excrescences of twentieth-century life as TV aerials.
The village is at its most beguiling in the triangular
Market Place
, a...
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