This gallery contains puctures from around the east Anglia region, incorporating the counties of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. Many of the towns in East Anglia featured in the Doomesday Book, published in 1086 AD. Towns and villages have Saxon, Viking and Norman names, though the area had been settled by hunter-gatherer tribes since the last Great Ice Age. Celtic and Iceni tribes (Bronze Age) lived and flourished here forthousands of years before the Roman Invasion.

Though relatively sparsely populated compared to the rest of the UK, east Anglia experienced waves of migrations the millennia as a result of its proximity to the continental mainland and the low countries.

Main towns featured in this gallery:

Bury St. Edmunds
Ely
Saffron Walden
Thaxted
Lavenham
Stamford