Sport and Leisure
Long Melford has a Non-League football club Long Melford F.C. who play at Stoneylands, just off St Catherines Road. Long Melford Country Park and Picnic Site is sited next to the River Stour in the adjoining hamlet of Rodbridge Corner. Long Melford has an large water meadow on the approach to Liston and a network of footpaths, including the Melford Walk which follows the route of the disused railway line before joining the Valley Walk path to Sudbury and the Suffolk Cycle Route which passes through the village. The Long Melford Street Fair and the Big Night Out Guy Fawkes Night fireworks event at Melford Hall are held annually.
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