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Norfolk and Suffolk Place-Names by James Rye Perhaps the place-name 'Norwich' has always been associated with shopping or football in your mind, 'Newmarket' was where you visited your sick Aunt Maud as a child, and 'Exning' was where you stayed the night with friends. It has never occurred to you that the Norfolk and Suffolk place names actually mean something. However, the East Anglian place names didn't just happen because the first people to use them liked the sounds that the words made.
