Library & Information

Saxmundham Library

The library has a good range of fiction, children's and reference books, as well as videos for hire, internet terminals, daily newspapers and magazines.

Note new opening times including Sunday opening.

Saxmundham Library
County Offices
Street Farm Road
Saxmundham
IP17 1AL
Tel: 01728 403094
Email: saxmundham.library@libher.suffolkcc.gov.uk

There are also libraries at Leiston, Aldeburgh, Framlingham, Southwold and Halesworth. Find more information about Suffolk libraries and search the Suffolk Library Catalogue online at www.suffolklibraries.co.uk

Links to other local information services

Suffolk Record Offices (www.suffolkcc.gov.uk/sro), located at Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds. Each office has records from District Councils, Boroughs, Parish Councils, ecclesiastical parishes, chapels, schools, businesses, organisations, charities and families in their areas, including the Census records up to 1901. Interestingly, Suffolk is the most heavily-used local authority archive service in the UK, with nearly 40,000 visitors a year. The Ipswich Record Office includes the financial, technical and production records of Garretts of Leiston, as well as all the local parish records. (The national archive is held at the Public Record Office: www.pro.gov.uk)

Suffolk Info Link (http://infolink.suffolkcc.gov.uk), the local information database for Suffolk which lists information and contact details of over 5,000 voluntary groups and clubs.