This village is famed for the character David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Copperfield was born at "Blundestone", and a number of local landmarks are referenced in the novel. Nobody knows whether Dickens ever visited the village, but from letters he wrote he mentions choosing the name after seeing it on a signpost during a visit to Great Yarmouth.
In 1086 it was named “Dunstuna”. It was a small village in the hundred of Lothingland consisting of a handful of families. The land was part of the holdings of Robert of Vaux and Count Alan of Brittany. During the medieval period the land was split between two manors, one at the Hall and one owned by the Gonville family. A medieval moated site at the Hall is a scheduled monument. The Hall is very important landmark here
The Millennium Green is much like Lound Village Green but much, much larger. During the coronavirus pandemic, it had something called a “Happy Tree”. The tree was adorned with painted shapes of wood and rainbow coloured wind chimes, to add a splash of colour and bring a smile to all who walked across the green
The village is clustered in the centre of the parish. The Lowestoft to Norwich railway line crosses to the West, with the nearest station being located at Somerleyton. The Western boundary is the River Waveney and between it and the village are a series of drainage marshes in the Waveney’s floodplain. There are houses stand on the site of the former prison which once housed Reggie Kray, one half of the notorious Kray twins who were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London
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