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ALDEBURGH [ALDjIOROUGH]

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 531 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALDEBURGH [ALDjIOROUGH]  , a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the See also:Eye See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Suffolk, See also:England, the See also:terminus of a See also:branch of the See also:Great Eastern railway, 991 M . N.E. by E. from See also:London . See also:Area, 1629 acres . Pop . (See also:loot) 2405 . The surrounding See also:district is open and somewhat See also:bleak, but a See also:fine stretch of See also:sand fringes the shallow inlet of the See also:North See also:Sea known as See also:Aldeburgh See also:Bay, To the W. the See also:river Alde broadens as if into an See also:estuary, but its outflow is here prevented by the sand, and it runs See also:south for nearly To m. parallel with the See also:shore . The sand-See also:banks have arrested the encroachments of the sea, which sub-merged a former site of Aldeburgh . The See also:church of St See also:Peter and St See also:Paul is Perpendicular, largely restored, and contains a See also:monument to the poet See also:George See also:Crabbe, See also:born here on the 24th of See also:December 1754 . A small picturesque See also:Moot See also:Hall of the 16th See also:century is used for See also:corporation meetings . Slaughden See also:Quay on the Alde admits small vessels, and fishing is carried on . Aldeburgh is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors . Aldeburgh (Aldburc) takes its name from the river Alde on which it stands .

It is not mentioned in pre-See also:

Conquest records, but at the Domesday survey most of the See also:land was held by See also:Robert See also:Malet, a See also:Norman . In 1155 the See also:manor was granted to the See also:abbey of St See also:John of See also:Colchester, later to See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey, and on his disgrace, to See also:Thomas See also:Howard, See also:duke of See also:Norfolk, to whom See also:Elizabeth in 1567 granted a market on Saturday . In the 16th century Aldeburgh was a See also:place of considerable commercial importance, due, no doubt, to its position on the sea-See also:coast . Aldeburgh claims to be a borough by See also:prescription: the earliest See also:charter is that granted by See also:Henry VIII. in 1529 . See also:Edward VI. in 1548 raised it to the See also:rank of a See also:free borough, granting a charter of See also:incorporation and a market on Wednesday . Later charters were granted by See also:Philip and See also:Mary in 1553, by Elizabeth in 1558 and 1567, by See also:James I . (who granted two See also:annual fairs) in 16o6, and by See also:Charles I. in 1631 and 1637 . The corporation included 2 bailiffs, ro See also:capital and 24 inferior burgesses, until the Municipal Corporations See also:Act 1883 . The fairs and markets became so unimportant that they were discontinued about the See also:middle of the 19th century . The town returned two members to Elizabeth's See also:parliament of 1572, and continued to be so represented till the Reform See also:Bill of 1832 disfranchised it . Frequent disastrous incursions of the sea in the 18th century reduced Aldeburgh to a See also:mere fishing See also:village . In See also:recent years it has grown as a seaside resort, with excellent See also:golf-links .

See John See also:

Kirby, The Suffolk Traveller (2nd ed., 1764) ; N . F . Hele, Notes about Aldeburgh (187o) ; See also:Victoria See also:County See also:History—Suffolk .

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