Place:Dunwich, Suffolk, England

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NameDunwich
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.283°N 1.617°E
Located inSuffolk, England     (630 - )
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Dunwich is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is located in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston on the North Sea coast. Its population at the 2001 census was 84.

In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was the capital of Kingdom of the East Angles but the harbour and most of the town have since disappeared due to coastal erosion. Its decline began in 1286 when a storm surge hit the East Anglian coast, and it was eventually reduced in size to the village it is today.

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