Framlingham, Suffolk
Framlingham is a market town and parish in Suffolk. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book when it then consisted of several manors.
The medieval Framlingham Castle is where Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon, was proclaimed Queen of England in 1553. There is a large mere next to it which used to supply the castle with fish.
St. Michael's church is the final resting place of members of the Howard family who were Dukes of Norfolk and Henry FitzRoy, 1st. Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519 to 1536), an illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
The town sign is positioned in the market place and is surmounted by the name. Below is shown the castle and the church. Beneath the castle is one of two of the oldest pillar boxes in the country still in use, dating from 1856 marked V. R. Victoria Regina, after Queen Victoria. In the centre is the armorial crest of Framlingham and on the right is the parish pump with its two spouts. At the bottom is an image of ducks swimming on the mere.
Framlingham, Suffolk
Framlingham is a market town and parish in Suffolk. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book when it then consisted of several manors.
The medieval Framlingham Castle is where Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon, was proclaimed Queen of England in 1553. There is a large mere next to it which used to supply the castle with fish.
St. Michael's church is the final resting place of members of the Howard family who were Dukes of Norfolk and Henry FitzRoy, 1st. Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519 to 1536), an illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
The town sign is positioned in the market place and is surmounted by the name. Below is shown the castle and the church. Beneath the castle is one of two of the oldest pillar boxes in the country still in use, dating from 1856 marked V. R. Victoria Regina, after Queen Victoria. In the centre is the armorial crest of Framlingham and on the right is the parish pump with its two spouts. At the bottom is an image of ducks swimming on the mere.