Shotley-Where is It?

Shotley is the parish which gives its name to the Shotley Peninsula, an outcrop of land situated between the rivers Stour and Orwell in Suffolk, between the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich. The current village of Shotley itself is located approximately a mile northwest of the tip of the Peninsula, where the larger village of Shotley Gate nestles between the Stour and Orwell estuaries. There is also a smaller settlement at Church End beside St Mary's Church, which was the original village of Shotley. Shotley Hall is located close to the church, which is itself notable for a cemetary containing a large number of war graves, many of them connected with HMS Ganges, the former naval training establishment at Shotley Gate. The area around Shotley Gate is designated as an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and the mud flats and salt marsh along the Stour side of the peninsula are designated as an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). The busy Shotley Marina is located at the tip of the peninsula, bordering the former HMS Ganges site on the Orwell side, and adjacent to the SSSI on the Stour side is Shotley Cliff.