Local Interest

Mistley is a delightful village to spend a relaxing afternoon wandering and admiring the Georgian architecture and Victorian industrial heritage.

Manningtree is a ten minute walk from the café along the ‘Walls’ with views across to neighbouring Suffolk, and the River Stour.
www.visit-manningtree.co.uk

Mark is our local RSPB Warden and regular café customer. Mistley and
Manningtree shoreline is within an AONB, stretching up to Orford and covering the rivers of the Stour, Orwell, Deben, Alde and Blyth. For more info on AONB. www.aonb.org.uk

The café has excellent views to watch a variety of birds while you drink your coffee! Binoculars and RSPB handbook available in the café.
www.rspb.org.uk

If you want to see the river from the best vantage points then you can take an afternoon on Sailing Barge Victor. www.sbvictor.co.uk

In September 2008 a two-metre high 130 metre long fence was erected across the historic public quay at Mistley. It is designed to block access to and from the River Stour and ends 500 years of free access to the water.
Free the Quay was set up and is run by local volunteers to have the fence removed. We have a donation box at the café which the money goes towards. www.freethequay.org