a market-town on the E. coast of Suffolk, 114 miles N.E. from London by road, and 149 by railway. The town, which is a place of great antiquity, stands on the top of a cliff facing the sea, from which it presents a remarkably picturesque appearance. It consists of a principal street, nearly a mile in length, with several smaller ones leading off from it. The parish church, about half a mile west of the town, is large and handsome, and contains several interesting monuments of antiquity. Potter, the distinguished Greek scholar, is buried in the churchyard. There is also a chapel of ease in the place, and chapels for Wesleyans, Independents, and Baptists. There is a free school and a national school in the place; besides a town-hall, a theatre, a lunatic asylum, and two lighthouses—one on the upper cliff, and another on the beach at the south end of the town. The roadsteads are sheltered by the Corton and Newcome Sands. Lowestoft has recently risen into considerable repute as a bathing place, from the peculiar adaptation of its sands for that purpose. Sir Samuel M. Peto purchased the harbour in 1841, and originated measures for the deepening of Lake Lothing, and for the general improvement of the port and town. The same gentleman further laid the town under considerable obligations to him by the construction of a branch railway from Reedham to Lowestoft. The principal manufactures are those of rope and twine; and a great number of the inhabitants are engaged in the fisheries and in fish-curing for the markets of London and Norwich. The shipping returns, given on the 31st December 1855, show the number and tonnage of the sailing vessels registered at Lowestoft as follows:—101 sailing vessels, with a tonnage of 4353; and 7 steam-vessels, with a tonnage of 1297. Lowestoft communicates with Denmark by steam during the season. Pop. (1851) 6580.