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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUNGAY  , a

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market-
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town in the
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Lowestoft
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parliamentary
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division of
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Suffolk,
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England; 113 M . N.E. from
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London on a
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branch from
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Beccles of the
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Great Eastern railway . Pop . (1901) 3314 . It is picturesquely placed in a deep
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bend of the
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river Waveney, the boundary with
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Norfolk . Of the two
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parish churches that of St
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Mary has a
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fine Perpendicular
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tower, and that of
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Holy Trinity a
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round tower of which the
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lower
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part is
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Norman . St Mary's was attached to a
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Benedictine nunnery founded in 1160 . The ruins of the
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castle date from 1281 . They are fragmentary though massive; and there are traces of
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earth-
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works of much earlier date . The castle was a stronghold of the powerful
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family of
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Bigod, being granted to
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Roger Bigod, a Norman follower of the Conqueror, in 1075 . A
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grammar school was founded in 1592 . There are large
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printing-works, and
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founding and malting are prosecuted .

There is a considerable carrying

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trade on the Waveney .

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