Suffolk

SUFFOLK, one of the largest English shires, being the twelfth in size, is a seaboard county on the east coast, and is the most easterly county in England, and derives its name from having been occupied by the South folk or the East English, who established their kingdom here: the North folk occupying the other part of their kingdom, whence its name of Norfolk. Suffolk is of a crescent shape, joining on to the south of the oval of Norfolk: its seacoast is low, and forms its eastern and south-eastern border. On the north it is divided from Norfolk by the Yare, Waveney, and Little Ouse rivers; on the west the Lark separates it from Cambridgeshire; and on the south the Stour is the boundary between it and Essex. The greatest length is 57 miles, and the greatest breadth is 48 miles.