Suffolk river ferries: Walberswick - Southwold
Rowing-boat ferry from Walberswick to Southwold, March 2021 Southwold is a very pleasant seaside resort, with all the traditional attractions like a pier, coloured beach-huts, and excellent fish-and-chips. But it also has something quite unusual - a licensed ferry across its harbour on the River Blyth. Harbour ferries aren't themselves that uncommon, but there aren't many of this kind: a rowing-boat ferry . Traditional beach huts and pier, Southwold To celebrate the current stage of pandemic-unlocking where the stay-at-home order has ended and non-essential travel is once again allowed, I took the train from Woodbridge to Halesworth and then bus 99A to Southwold to spend an afternoon at the beach on this very sunny day. One very nice walk around the town is to follow the public footpath along the route of the former Southwold Railway, closed in 1929, to just past its bridge over the River Blyth and then along the river wall to the village of Walberswick. The village itself h...