Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh, a small seaport and watering-place on the coast of Suffolk, 29 miles NE. of Ipswich by rail. A parliamentary borough since 1572, it was disfranchised in 1832; but in 1885 it received a new municipal charter. It has a quaint, half-timbered Moot Hall; and in the church is a bust of the poet Crabbe, who was a native. Pop. 2159.