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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Day

What’s so jolly about Woodbridge? I travelled to ‘the happiest place in the UK’ to find out

Down by the river: The flowing water of the Deben gives Woodbridge a beautiful backdrop - (Getty/iStock)

While walking up Seckford Street, passing a market stall selling freshly baked bread outside the handsome Flemish-looking Shire Hall, I reflect that this must have been the fifth occasion today I had asked myself: “What the hell is Roy Keane’s problem?”

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone with a bad word to say about Woodbridge. That is, unless you bump into the former Manchester United captain, who, when he was Ipswich Town manager, claimed it was a nice town – but only for “a holiday weekend in summer, maybe”.

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