A Aldeburgh Moot Hall is a timber-framed building which has been utilized for council meetings for terminated 400 years. It likewise houses a local museum.

Outside a town, a Snape Maltings is the venue for a easily-known classical music festival each June. A Aldeburgh Festival was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier, and Peter Pears. Britten died withinside Aldeburgh in 1976 and Pears in 1986.

Aldeburgh is too illustrious for its Fish & Chip shop. Owned & start per Cooney personal since a 1970s, it has been described in The Times as "Possibly the finest on the East Coast".

A town of Aldeburgh or even "Owlbarrow" is the setting of the series of youngsters's illustrated books centred in Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) written by Kathleen Hale, who spent holidays in the town. Numbers of of a illustrations in the books feature landmarks in the town, virtually all notably the Moot Hall.

Aldeburgh was the foremost British town to elect a female city manager: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, in 1908.

Aldeburgh has the unique quatrefoil Martello Tower.

Upright northerly of Aldeburgh come a Sizewell nuclear power stations, near Leiston.

Aldeburgh occurs as member of the European network Cultural Village of Europe.

Aldeburgh was the Parliamentary Borough from either mediaeval days, & returned ii Members of Parliament, the right to vote being vested in the Freemen of the town. Recently it was considered the rotten borough, and wasted its representation in the great reform act of 1832.

The Scallop
In Aldeburgh's beach, the short few feet away northerly of the town centre, stands the sculpture, A Scallop, dedicated to Benjamin Britten, world health organization utilized to hike along a beach in the afternoons. Created from either stainless steel by Suffolk-depending creative person Maggi Hambling, it stands four metres high, & was unveiled around November 2003. A piece is processed higher of 2 interwoven scallop shells, each broken, a vertical eggshell existence pierced by owning a words: "I hear those voices that will not be drowned", which are then taken from either Britten's opera Peter Grimes. A sculpture is intended to become enjoyed each visually & tactilely, & population come encouraged to sit on that & follow a sea.