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