Make hay in Constable country: The Stour Valley, Suffolk and Essex

Let’s hear it for the country’s best loved landscape painter. This is the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Constable, the man who revolutionised the genre. Constable loved what he saw, and his greatest love was for the countryside where he grew up, around the River Stour in Suffolk-Essex. Constable country is celebrating him this year and this, then, is the time to visit, though the Stour Valley is enchanting at any time.