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King's Lynn

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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 , 1752–1840, English novelist, daughter of Charles Burney, the composer, organist, and music scholar.
..... Click the link for more information.  and the mystic Margery Kempe Kempe, Margery , d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed.
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Byline: Nigel Pearson BIRMINGHAM 55 KING'S LYNN 36 GRAHAM Drury could afford a wry smile after putting one over his greatest rivals in the sport last night.
Victory is extra sweet for Drury; SPEEDWAY by Birmingham Mail (England)
Heat Seven was always going to be a tough one against the prematch favourites, King's Lynn Stars and so it proved with Tomas Topinka and the young Australian sensation, Darcy Ward leaving the Berwick pair standing from the start to take a maximum 7-2 from the race as Bandits' overall total moved on to eight.
Berwick's Czechs bounced in title bid; SPEEDWAY by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Several players from the region travelled to the Maltings Q Club in King's Lynn.
Buglass closes in on England spot; JUNIOR BILLIARDS by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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