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Framlingham

Framlingham is a small town in Suffolk. The medieval Framlingham Castle is a major feature. It is also home to one of the smallest houses in Britain, known as the "Check House".
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  • Type: Town with 3,090 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Suffolk, England
  • Also known as: “Framlingham, Suffolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Framlingham Castle and St Michael the Archangel’s Church, Framlingham.

Castle
Photo: Ian Dalgliesh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a castle in the market town of Framlingham, , England. An early motte and bailey or ringwork Norman castle was built on the Framlingham site by 1148, but this was destroyed by Henry II of England in the aftermath of the Revolt of 1173–1174.

Church
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St Michael's Church in Framlingham, Suffolk is a Church of England church dedicated to Saint Michael. It was the burial site of the Howard family. The church was designated a Grade I listed building in 1966.

Historic site
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is a historic site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saxtead and Dennington.

Hamlet
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is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of , England. gives its name to the settlements of and Little Green and the windmill .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the English county of . It is 2 miles north of Framlingham and 15 miles north-east of in the east of the county. is situated 2 miles north of Framlingham.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in , England.

Framlingham

Latitude
52.2221° or 52° 13′ 19″ north
Longitude
1.3416° or 1° 20′ 30″ east
Population
3,090
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB FRA
Open location code
9F4368CR+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 54049056
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649104
Wiki­data ID
Q616587
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Framlingham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فراملينغهام”
  • Asturian: “Framlingham”
  • Basque: “Framlingham”
  • Belarusian: “Фрэмлінгэм”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রামলিংহ্যাম”
  • Cebuano: “Framlingham”
  • Chinese: “Framlingham”
  • Chinese: “弗拉姆灵厄姆”
  • Chinese: “弗瑞林姆”
  • Danish: “Framlingham”
  • Dutch: “Framlingham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فراملينجهام”
  • Esperanto: “Framlingham”
  • French: “Framlingham”
  • German: “Framlingham”
  • Hebrew: “פרמלינגהאם”
  • Irish: “Framlingham”
  • Italian: “Framlingham”
  • Japanese: “フラムリンガム”
  • Ladin: “Framlingham”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Framlingham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Framlingham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Framlingham”
  • Norwegian: “Framlingham”
  • Persian: “فراملینگهام”
  • Polish: “Framlingham”
  • Romanian: “Framlingham”
  • Russian: “Фрамлингем”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فراملینقهام”
  • Spanish: “Framlingham”
  • Swedish: “Framlingham”
  • Turkish: “Framlingham”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрамлінгем”
  • Volapük: “Framlingham”
  • Welsh: “Framlingham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Framlingham”. Photo: Squeezyboy, CC BY 2.0.