Rumburgh

Rumburgh is a village in Suffolk in England.

Rumburgh, Church of St Michael & St Felix

Etymology

Its name is first found in is this entry in Latin in the Register of St Benet's Abbey of Hulme near Horning north of Norwich, which can be dated to 1047-64: ... in cella quadam que Romburch dicitur ... = "in a certain cell which is called Romburch". This refers to the founding of Rumburgh Priory, the church of which remains as the parish church of St Michael & St Felix.

Its name is often supposed to come from Anglo-Saxon rūn-burh = "council fort", or hrōna-burh = "fort made of logs", or rūm-burh = "spacious fort"; but, as it was a remote outpost of the Abbey of St. Benedict of Holme, a theory has been raised that it is Rōme-burh (= Rome in Italy) given to it as an ironic "distance name", as was later with farms in England named Babylon or Egypt or Botany Bay because they were "miles from anywhere" and jocularly thought of as a place of exile.

External links

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Waveney

Towns	Beccles Bungay Carlton Colville Halesworth Lowestoft Southwold

Civil parishes	All Saints and St Nicholas, South Elmham Barnby Barsham Benacre Blundeston Blyford Brampton with Stoven Corton Covehithe Ellough Flixton (Lothingland) Flixton (the Saints) Frostenden Gisleham Henstead with Hulver Street Holton Kessingland Lound Mettingham Mutford North Cove Oulton Redisham Reydon Ringsfield Rumburgh Rushmere Shadingfield Shipmeadow Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet Sotherton Sotterley South Cove Spexhall St Andrew, Ilketshall St Cross, South Elmham St James, South Elmham St John, Ilketshall St Lawrence, Ilketshall St Margaret, Ilketshall St Margaret, South Elmham St Mary, South Elmham St Michael, South Elmham St Peter, South Elmham Uggeshall Wangford with Henham Westhall Weston Willingham St Mary Wissett Worlingham Wrentham

See also: Waveney (UK Parliament constituency) Waveney local elections

Coordinates: 52°22′N 1°27′E / 52.367°N 1.450°E / 52.367; 1.450

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