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Local Information for Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, lying between the eastern edge of The Broads National Park at Oulton Broad and the North Sea. Nearby Lowestoft Ness is the most easterly point in the United Kingdom.

The town is divided in two by Lake Lothing, with the northern half being the commercial centre and the southern half being the holiday resort.

The town has two piers: the South Pier which forms the southern boundary of the harbour, and the Claremont Pier about one mile further to the south. In the early part of the 20th century, the Claremont Pier had a T-shaped pier head and was used as a embarkation point for the passenger steamships that operated between London to the south and Great Yarmouth to the north.

The seaward boundary of the harbour is a strip of land known as the Old Extension, or the North Extension. Over the last couple of decades the Extension has been the site of activity supporting the North Sea oil and gas industry; particul...More