a market-town in the county of Suffolk, 109 miles from London. It is a well-built town, comprising two parishes with their churches, and the ruins of an ancient monastery and of a castle. A considerable trade is carried on in corn, malt, flour, coal, lime, &c. by means of the river Waveney, which almost surrounds the town and common in the form of a horse-shoe, and which is navigable to the sea at Yarmouth. It has an octagonal market-house and cross, assembly rooms, savings-bank, baths, dispensary, alms-houses, and grammar-school with 4 scholarships at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Market-day Thursday. Pop. (1851) 3841.