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Lowestoft is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is 110 miles (177 km) north-east of London, 38 miles (61 km) north-east of Ipswich and 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Norwich. It is situated on the edge of the Broads system and is the major settlement within the district of Waveney with a population of 64,358 at the 2001 census.
Lowestoft is situated on the south east edge of the Broads. The word Broad is derived from the Anglo Saxon Braedan (to spread out or broaden), and is the word commonly used in Norfolk and Suffolk to describe the parts of rivers which have expanded to great width and locally formed small lakes.
- Lowestoft was called Lothuwistoft in the Domesday Book.
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Lowestoft’s name is derived from the Viking personal name Hlothver, and toft, a Viking word for 'homestead'. The town's name has been spelt variously: Lothnwistoft, Laistoe, Lestoffe, Loystoft and Laystoft.
- Lowestoft has been host to all sorts of creatures, including Ichthyosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Megatherium (giant sloth) and Woolly Mammoth. You can see the bones of some of them at the museum.
- Early man crossed the Alps to live at Pakefield near Lowestoft 700,000 years ago and the 30 flint tools found there represent the earliest record of human activity found so far in Northern Europe.
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