Lowestoft, seaport and watering-place at the mouth of the Waveney, in Suffolk, 120 m. NE. of London, the most easterly town in England; has a good harbour, an old parish church, and a large fish-market; the Dutch were defeated off Lowestoft in 1665.
Population (circa 1900) given as 23,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lower Empire * Lowth, Robert