Official Visitor Website
Back to Destinations Destinations

Leiston

Small town, whose prosperity grew in the 19th C. with the success of the Garrett engineering firm.

Description
Description

Small town, whose prosperity grew in the 19th C. with the success of the Garrett engineering firm. They built traction engines and road rollers – with the Long Shop one of the world’s first flow-line production assembly halls. Suffolk’s oldest purpose built cinema, opened in 1914. Close by are the romantic ruins of 14th C. Leiston Abbey.