East of England Manual

The front cover of Streets for All: East of England which shows people walking through the leaf-covered market place in Elm Hill, Norwich The East of England region is predominantly fertile agricultural countryside punctuated with many small towns and villages.  The diversity of places has produced a wide range of building types and settlement patterns from the brick of Bedfordshire to the timber frames of Suffolk and from the mediaeval contrasts of Cambridge to the garden suburb conformity of Letchworth. These distinct characters have to be thoroughly understood if they are to be properly conserved.