Southwold, a Suffolk watering-place, 41 miles by a small branch-line NE. of Ipswich. A municipal borough since 1489, it was almost destroyed by fire in 1659, but retained its fine Perpendicular church (1460), 144 feet long. In Southwold or Sole Bay a bloody but indecisive sea-fight was fought between the English and the Dutch on 28th May 1672. Pop. (1851) 1955; (1891) 2311.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 595
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