Small hamlet recognised as England’s first dark sky community

Thorington Hall with the DarkSky Discovery Centre in the foreground, as Thorington Street was recognised with International DarkSky Community status (Dedham Vale Dark Skies campaign/PA) -

A hamlet in Suffolk has been recognised as England’s first dark sky community by DarkSky International.

Thorington Street, in Dedham Vale, gets “some really lovely dark skies” and the “Milky Way can be seen very clearly in the late summer”, an astronomer said.