Rumburgh is a village in Suffolk in England.
Etymology
Its name is first found in is this entry in Latin in the Register of the Abbey of St. Benedict of Holme (near Horning in the Norfolk Broads), which can be dated to 1047-64: ... in cella quadam que Romburch dicitur ... = "in a certain cell which is called Romburch"
Its name is often supposed to come from Anglo-Saxon rūn-burh = "council fort", or hrōna-burh = "fort made of logs", or rūm-burh = "spacious fort"; but, as it was a remote outpost of the Abbey of St. Benedict of Holme, a theory has been raised that it is Rōme-burh (= Rome in Italy) given to it as an ironic "distance name", as was later with farms in England named Babylon or Egypt or Botany Bay because they were "miles from anywhere" and jocularly thought of as a place of exile.
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Coordinates: 52°22′N 1°27′E / 52.367°N 1.45°E
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