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| The Aldeburgh Order Book 1549-1631 A facsimile reproduction on CD-ROM of a verbatim transcription from an order book “takene owt of the Towne booke ther decreed and made by the Ballyffes and Burgesses.” A fascinating insight into the affairs of the historic borough of Aldeburgh in this period, it includes many local names. The original publication was transcribed by Arthur T. Winn and published by Stephen Austin in 1925. View using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Price: £7.95 |
Place name: "Old fort" (Ekwall in The Concise Dictionary of English Place-names.) Professor Skeat (in The Place-names of Suffolk ) spells it Aldborough and says it is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, seo ealde burh, the old borough. He says that the river Alde takes its name from the town and not vice versa.
Administration: Aldeburgh was in the hundred of Plomesgate, the Deanery of Orford (to 1914, then Saxmundham), the Union of Plomesgate. Its famously "rotten" borough was disfranchised in 1832. Aldeburgh Municipal Borough, 1885-1974, Suffolk Coastal Dstrict (from 1974).
Population: 5 recorded in 1086 (Domesday); 1,627 in 1851 and 2,918 in 1981.
Church: SS Peter & Paul.Vandalised by Dowsing's men in 1643. The graves of many interesting people can be found in the churchyard, including those of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
Key People & Events: George Crabbe (11754-1832), poet came from Aldeburgh and worked at Slaughden quay as a young man. The Garrett Family, including Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), Mayoress of Aldeburgh and the first Englishwoman to qualify as a doctor. Millicent Garret Fawcett (1846-1929), leader of the non-militant campaign for women's suffrage in England. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): although a native of Lowestoft, he will forever be associated with Aldeburgh having lived there from 1947 until his death and founded the Aldeburgh Festival.
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