Leiston is a market town nestled on the Suffolk Heritage Coast, just a few miles inland from the North Sea. Known for its unique blend of industrial history and rural charm, Leiston sits amid a landscape of coastal heath, meadows, and farmland, offering a distinctive pace of life. The town is famous for its connections to the historic Sizewell nuclear power stations and the 19th-century Richard Garrett & Sons engineering works, most notably preserved at the Long Shop Museum.