The River Stour trickles gently through a soft, pastoral landscape that has inspired some of Britain’s best-loved painters from Constable to Gainsborough. It’s impossibly pretty villages are filled with the timber-framed houses and elegant churches that recall the region’s 15th-century weaving boom, when this unlikely valley produced more cloth than anywhere else in England. In the 16th century, however, production gradually shifted elsewhere and the valley reverted to a rural backwater, ignored by the Industrial Revolution and virtually every-one else – bad news for locals, but great for today’s visitors as its medieval villages have survived miraculously intact.
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