BUNGAY, urban district of East Suffolk, England; 113m. N.E. of London on a branch of the L.N.E.R. from Beccles. Pop. 3,098. It is placed in a deep bend of the river Waveney, the boundary with Norfolk. The parish church of St. Mary has a fine Perpendicular tower, and that of Holy Trinity a round tower of which the lower part is Norman. St. Mary's was attached to a Benedictine nunnery found in 116o. The castle, of which massive ruins remain, was a stronghold of the powerful family of Bigod, being granted to Roger Bigod, a Norman follower of the Con queror, in 1075. A grammar school was founded in 1592. There are large printing-works, and a considerable carrying trade on the Waveney, in corn, flour and lime.