Britain at its best: Thomas Gainsborough’s birthplace of Suffolk is as pretty as a picture

Walk down Market Hill in Sudbury and you could be back in 1727 — the year the town’s most famous son, Thomas Gainsborough, was born. The painter would recognise the splendid medieval churches of Sudbury: St Gregory, St Peter and All Saints.  He would know the 16th-century, half-timbered Black Boy Hotel — and surely love … Read more