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An Anglo-Saxon coin brooch (reverse); Sudbury, Suffolk. The county of Suffolk (Sudfole, Suthfolc, meaning 'southern folk') was formed from the south part of the kingdom of East Anglia which had been settled by the Angles in the latter half of the 5th century.
Suffolk contains five local government districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county administered by Suffolk County Council. The Suffolk coastline, which includes parts of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape, is a complex habitat, formed by London Clay and crag underlain by chalk and therefore susceptible to ...
East Anglia is an area of Southern England often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, [1] with parts of Essex sometimes also included. East Anglia is both a geographical and cultural term.
The Suffolk is a British breed of domestic sheep. It originated in the late eighteenth century in the area of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, as a result of cross-breeding when Norfolk Horn ewes were put to improved Southdown rams. It is a polled, black-faced breed, and is raised primarily for its meat. It has been exported to many countries, and ...
Red areas are the commonly agreed upon areas in East Anglia of Norfolk and Suffolk. The pink areas are the areas that are not always agreed upon by scholars containing Essex and Cambridgeshire. East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia , primarily in or before the mid-20th century.
In reviewing S. P. B. Mais's The Home Counties (Batsford The Face of Britain series, 1942), Norah Richardson noted that "the home counties" was a term in constant use but hard to define, but that Mais's definition of "the five counties around London County – Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Surrey" could not be improved upon. [6]
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Thwaite is a common element of placenames in North West England, and Yorkshire. [1] [2] It is also found elsewhere in England, including two places called Thwaite in Norfolk and one in Suffolk. [3]