Weddings in Constable Country: Dedham Vale & Sudbury

The birthplace and former home of Thomas Gainsborough in the centre of Sudbury, now a museum and arts centre with a walled garden. Licensed for small ceremonies in the historic townhouse and garden.

The mill house at Flatford, on the River Stour, is the subject of Constable's most famous paintings. The mill, Willy Lott's cottage and the river bend are as recognisable as any landscape in English art. Available for portrait photography by prior arrangement with the National Trust.

A late-medieval moated hall at Long Melford in the heart of Constable Country, set within a formal walled garden and a long lime-tree avenue approach from the village. The Tudor building, the moat crossing and the lime avenue together give a sequence of very distinct photographic settings.

A remarkably complete Norman keep (c.1140) in Castle Hedingham on the Essex-Suffolk border, with the great hall, spiral stair and the keep exterior all available for licensed events. The keep seen from the meadow below is one of the finest Norman building photographs in East Anglia.

Long Melford, Clare, Cavendish and Lavenham form a constellation of medieval wool-town villages within 10 miles of Sudbury. Timber-framed houses, medieval churches and thatched greens — Cavendish in particular, with the thatched cottages framing the village green and the church tower, is one of the most photographed villages in England.