Mediaeval Suffolk

Suffolk was one of the most important regions of England in the middle ages.

Even by 1200 it was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; and it survived the impact of three of the most tumultuous events of the last millennium, the Great Famine (1315-22), the Black Death (1349) and the Peasants’ Revolt (1381).

By 1500, Suffolk had become one of the richest and most industrialised regions of England, based on cloth manufacture, fishing and tanning.