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King's Lynn, town (1991 pop. 37,323), Norfolk, E England, on the Great Ouse River near its influx into The Wash, an inlet of the North Sea. Its large harbor serves foreign as well as coastal trade and is the base for a fishing fleet. A farm market, King's Lynn is a center for fertilizer production, canning, flour milling, beet-sugar refining, shipbuilding, metalworking, and light engineering. The town dates from Saxon times. Red Mount Chapel was visited by pilgrims in the 15th and 16th cent. Noteworthy are the many ancient buildings, in addition to the fairs that are still held there. A Norman church also remains, as do relics of a moat that surrounded the town in the 15th cent. King's Lynn was the birthplace of the novelist Fanny Burney Burney, Fanny, later Madame D'Arblay (därblā`) ..... Click the link for more information. and the mystic Margery Kempe Kempe, Margery (kĕmp), d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Several chapels were built along the way, including one at King's Lynn, the nearest large town, and one at Houghton St. The Queen Mother Elizabeth, 97, was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn near Sandringham and then transferred to the King Edward VII Hospital in London, a royal family spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity. The XJTAG boundary scan system will be implemented initially at UK manufacturing facilities at King's Lynn and Cambridge, and subsequently at its Poole facility and at its partner's production site. |
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