FolkEast finds new festival location for 2025

FolkEast has been held at the Glemham Hall estate for the past 12 years

A folk festival has found a new venue after moving on from its usual location when the land was put up for sale.

FolkEast had been held at the Glemham Hall estate near Woodbridge, Suffolk, for the past 12 years, but the founders had been looking for a new home for 2025.

It was announced on the festival's YouTube channel that the new site would be Sotterley Estate, near Beccles, for next year's event in August.

Becky Marshall-Potter, who founded the festival alongside her husband John, said more information on the location would be released in the future.

The couple previously said they were emotional about leaving Glemham Hall.

"Glemham has been our home for 12 years and when you've worked on a site like this you know every hole, every tree, every bit of this land and it's absolutely beautiful," Mrs Marshall-Potter told BBC Radio Suffolk in August.

"It's a home for three weeks for us, so it's like our summer holiday home."

Becky Marshall-Potter said more information on next year's festival would be released in the future

"All these years here we've learnt how to use this site to our best advantage and it is a lovely site," Mr Marshall-Potter added.

"The event has grown here really nicely but it could kind of be a reset for the whole thing."

Glemham Hall is a 16th Century country house that was put on the market for £19m earlier this year.

The property, which was being sold by Strutt & Parker, is no longer on the market.