The birthplace of Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) at Honington, Suffolk. Bloomfield, English farm labourer, shoemaker and poet, remembered now mainly as the author of 'The Farmer's Boy' (1800) a verse tale illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Woodcut from 'The Table Book' by William Hone (London, 1828).

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The birthplace of Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) at Honington, Suffolk. Bloomfield, English farm labourer, shoemaker and poet, remembered now mainly as the author of 'The Farmer's Boy' (1800) a verse tale illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Woodcut from 'The Table Book' by William Hone (London, 1828).

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