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Dunwich (/ ˈ d ʌ n ɪ tʃ /) is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around 92 miles (148 km) north-east of London, 9 miles (14 km) south of Southwold and 7 miles (11 km) north of Leiston , on the North Sea coast.
Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1296 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act .
Dunwich had a very small electorate and, as most of the town had disappeared under the sea, it was recognised by the UK Parliament as a rotten borough. [10] Its right to elect members of parliament was removed by the Reform Act 1832, [11] and its borough council, which met in the town hall, was reformed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883 ...
Greyfriars, Dunwich was a Franciscan friary in Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk. The friary was founded before 1277 by Richard FitzJohn and his wife Alice and dissolved in 1538. [ 1 ] The original site, which had 20 friars in 1277 when it first appears in records, was threatened by coastal erosion and the friary was moved inland in 1289.
The county was constantly represented in parliament by two knights from 1290, until the Reform Bill of 1832 gave four members to Suffolk, at the same time disfranchising the boroughs of Dunwich, Orford and Aldeburgh. Suffolk was early among the most populous of English counties, doubtless owing to its proximity to the continent.
A History of Suffolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. I. Folkestone, Kent, UK: Victoria County House. pp. 279– 323. ISBN 978-0-7129-0647-0 – via University of London, Institute of Historical Research. Haslam, Jeremy (1992). "Dommoc and Dunwich: A reappraisal" (PDF). Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History. 1992 ...
The Bishop of Dunwich is an episcopal title which was first used by an Anglo-Saxon bishop between the seventh and ninth centuries and is currently used by the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The title takes its name after Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk. Previously a significant port, this town has now ...
This was one of two huge storms to strike England in 1287. The other, known in the Netherlands as St. Lucia's flood, struck in December, the following winter. Together with a surge in January 1286, [2] they seem to have prompted the decline of one of England's then-leading ports, Dunwich in Suffolk.