Thorington Street in Dedham Vale has been handed the accolade by DarkSky International.
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A hamlet in Suffolk has been recognised as England’s first dark sky community by DarkSky International.
Thorington Street, in Dedham Vale, gets “some really lovely dark skies” and the “Milky Way can be seen very clearly in the late summer”, an astronomer said.
The contest was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the park being named as an International Dark Sky Reserve.
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