a market-town of the hundred of Wangford, in the county of Suffolk, 107 miles from London, on the river Waveney, which divides it from the county of Norfolk, and is navigable to the sea at Yarmouth. It is a well-built town, comprising two parishes with their churches, and the ruins of an ancient monastery and of a castle. There is but little trade except on the Thursday's market. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2349, in 1811 to 2828, and in 1821 to 3290.