Photographs of Lavenham

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Lavenham is a village in Suffolk noted for its 15th century church and numerous half-timbered medieval cottages. In the medieval period it was one of the wealthiest settlements in England.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul dominates Lavenham and was completed in about 1530 just before the Reformation. It is evidence of the vast wealth that was concentrated in this area of East Anglia during the late medieval and Tudor periods because of the wool trade.