Editing East of England (section)

===East Anglia===
[[File:Flag of East Anglia.svg|thumb|Flag of East Anglia]]
[[File:Great Witchingham Hall - geograph.org.uk - 73615.jpg|thumb|right|[[Great Witchingham Hall]], the headquarters of [[Bernard Matthews Farms]], north-west of Norwich at [[Great Witchingham]] on the [[A1067 road|A1067]] ]]
The economy in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk is traditionally mostly agricultural. Norfolk is the UK's biggest producer of potatoes. Nationally known companies include the [[RAC Limited|RAC]], [[Archant]] (publishing), [[Virgin Money UK|Virgin Money]] and [[Aviva]] (formerly [[Norwich Union]]) in Norwich. In Carrow, to the east of the city, [[Colman's]] makes a wide range of mustards, and [[Britvic]] makes [[Robinsons (drink)|Robinsons]] squash, which was owned by Colman's until 1995. Across the [[River Yare]] near the A47/[[A146 road|A146]] junction in [[Trowse|Trowse with Newton]] is [[May Gurney]], the construction company. [[Bernard Matthews Farms]] has a large turkey farm on the former [[RAF Attlebridge]] in [[Weston Longville]]. [[Campbell Soup Company|Campbell Soup]] was made in [[Kings Lynn]] until 2008, and on the Hardwick Industrial Estate at the A47/[[A149 road|A149]] junction is [[PinguinLutosa]] the UK, which packs [[frozen vegetables]], and [[Caithness Crystal]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Archer |first=Ian W |date=2019-06-12 |title=Almshouses in Early Modern England: Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550–1725, by Angela Nicholls |url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/134/567/458/5384485 |journal=The English Historical Review |language=en |volume=134 |issue=567 |pages=458–459 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cez023 |issn=0013-8266}}</ref>

[[Foster Refrigerator]] is the UK's leading manufacturer of commercial refrigerators and [[Blast chilling|blast chiller]]s, owned by [[Illinois Tool Works]], based on the industrial estate; with [[Multitone Electronics]], which has a manufacturing plant there, and which invented the [[pager]] in 1956, for [[St Thomas' Hospital]]; and [[Snap-on|Snap-on Diagnostics]] makes [[Machine fault diagnosis|diagnostic tool]]s for garages. British Sugar's [[Wissington, Norfolk|Wissington]] is the world's largest [[sugar beet]] factory in [[Methwold]], on the B1160 near the [[River Wissey]]. [[Lotus Cars]] and [[Team Lotus]] are on the eastern edge of the former [[RAF Hethel]], east of [[Wymondham]] (A11) at [[Hethel]] ([[Bracon Ash]]). [[Jeyes Group]] makes household chemicals in [[Thetford]], off the [[A134 road|A134]]; [[Multiyork]] makes furniture and [[Baxter International|Baxter Healthcare]] has a manufacturing plant in the south of the town. [[Aunt Bessie]] vegetable products (roast potatoes) are made by [[Heinz]] at [[Westwick, Norfolk|Westwick]], in a factory built by [[Ross Group]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Archer |first=Ian W |date=2019-06-12 |title=Almshouses in Early Modern England: Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550–1725, by Angela Nicholls |url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/134/567/458/5384485 |journal=The English Historical Review |language=en |volume=134 |issue=567 |pages=458–459 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cez023 |issn=0013-8266}}</ref>

[[File:P60ARM GC 01.jpg|thumb|left|[[ARM architecture|ARM CPU]] designed in Cambridge]]
Around Cambridge on numerous [[science park]]s, are high technology (electronics and biochemistry) companies, such as [[ARM Holdings]] on [[Peterhouse Technology Park]] in the south-east of the town, [[Adder Technology]] ([[KVM switch]]es) at [[Bar Hill]] at the [[A14 road (England)|A14]]/B1050 junction north of the town, [[Monsanto]], [[Play.com]] on the Cambridge Business Centre. The [[Wellcome Trust Genome Campus]] has the [[European Bioinformatics Institute]] at [[Hinxton]] east of Duxford near the M11 spur for the A11. These form the so-called [[Silicon Fen]]. [[Marshall Aerospace]] is at [[Cambridge Airport]] on the [[A1303 road|A1303]] in the east of the town, towards [[Teversham]]. South of the airport, [[Carl Zeiss AG|Carl Zeiss NTS]] makes [[scanning electron microscope]]s in Cherry Hinton. [[Syngenta]] is to the east of Cambridge, on Capital Park at [[Fulbourn]]. [[Premier Foods]] has a large plant in [[Histon]] making [[Robertson's]] and [[Hartley's]] jam, [[Gale's]] honey, [[Smash (instant mashed potato)|Smash]] [[Instant mashed potatoes|instant potato]], and [[Rose's (marmalade)|Rose's]] [[marmalade]]. [[Addenbrooke's Hospital]] is a pioneering hospital in the UK, based at [[Cambridge Biomedical Campus]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Archer |first=Ian W |date=2019-06-12 |title=Almshouses in Early Modern England: Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550–1725, by Angela Nicholls |url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/134/567/458/5384485 |journal=The English Historical Review |language=en |volume=134 |issue=567 |pages=458–459 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cez023 |issn=0013-8266}}</ref>

{{See also|Transport in East Anglia}}
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