Country pub of the week: the Dolphin, Thorpeness

The esteemable George Pell, owner of the Suffolk in Aldeburgh, has bought a pub. We expect you’ll want to head that way with determined regularity in the summer. But until Pell’s place opens, try the Dolphin Inn in Thorpeness, a village north of Aldeburgh once owned by the Ogilvie family, which made a fortune in railways in the early 1800s. Most of the land was sold off in the 1970s, but descendent Hamish Ogilvie still owns the Meare, an artificial boating lake.