Framlingham

Framlingham ('strangers' town'), a market-town of Suffolk, 22 miles NNE. of Ipswich by a branch line. It consists of a spacious market-place, with a few streets branching off irregularly. The fine flint-work church, restored in 1888-89, has a tower 90 feet high, and contains several noble altartombs of the Howards (the third Duke of Norfolk, the poet Earl of Surrey, &c.). Separated by the Mere from the red-brick Albert middle-class college (1864) rises the great Edwardian castle, reduced in 1650 to a mere shell, but retaining its thirteen square towers. The stronghold successively of Bigods, Mowbrays, and Howards, it was Queen Mary's refuge after Edward VI.'s death. Pop. 2518. See Hawes's History of Framlingham (1798).