Rumburgh is a village and

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in the

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. It is north-west of the market town of Halesworth in the East Suffolk District. The population of the parish at the

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was 327. The village is centred around a road junction, with development extending in a linear fashion. There is an additional cluster of housing at Aldous Corner as well as a number of scattered farms throughout the parish.Rumburgh
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-03-03.Rumburgh
Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-03-03. The parish borders the parishes of

St James South Elmham St James South Elmham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of the market town of Halesworth and south-west of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It is one of the parishes around Bungay ...

, All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham,

St Michael South Elmham St Michael South Elmham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is south of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It is one of the villages surrounding Bungay which make up the area known ...

, Ilketshall St Margaret, Spexhall and Wissett.

History

The village was not mentioned directly in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

,Rumburgh
Open Domesday. Retrieved 2021-03-03. but

Rumburgh Priory Rumburgh Priory was a Benedictine priory located in the village of Rumburgh in the English county of Suffolk. The priory was founded in about 1065 as a cell of St Benet's Abbey at Hulme in Norfolk.Page W (1975) 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory ...

was founded in the parish in about 1065. A

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priory, it was founded as a cell of St Benet's Abbey at

Hulme Hulme () is an inner city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England, immediately south of Manchester city centre. It has a significant industrial heritage. Historically in Lancashire, the name Hulme is derived from the Old Norse word for ...

in Norfolk.Page W (1975) 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Rumburgh' in ''A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2'', pp. 77–79.
Available online
at British History Online. Retrieved 2011-05-02.) At the time of the Domesday survey it had 12 monks. The priory was "suppressed" in 1528 by

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and used to provide funds for the building of Cardinal College in

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

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(ed) (1848) 'Rufford - Runwick' in ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'', pp. 711–716.
Available online
at British History Online. Retrieved 2011-05-02.)Knott S (2008

Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2011-05-02.

Culture and community

The parish church dates from the 13th-century and is the former priory church. It is dedicated to St Michael and St Felix and has an unusual wide tower dating from the same period the church was built. The

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-typ ...

and

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date from the 15th-century and the south porch from the 16th-century. The church is a Grade I listed building.Church of St Michael and St Felix
List entry,

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. Retrieved 2021-03-03. Other than the church, Rumburgh has a village hall, playing field and a public house, the ''Rumburgh Buck''.Rumburgh Buck
Suffolk pubs,

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. Retrieved 2021-03-03.

References

External links

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