North Lynn / Lena / Lynn St. Edmund's / North Lenne / Old Lynn

There are five entries for 'Lynn' in the Domesday book under the variant spellings "Lena" and "Lun", but no mention of a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810), who argues at length about the origin of the toponym, notes that "Lynn [...] from the Conqueror's book of Domesday, made in the year 1085, at which time, and in the Confessor's, this town, with the townships or hamlets of West, North, and South Lynn, we find to be all included under the general name of Lena, and Lun, the distinction of West, North. and South not being till some centuries after". “It has been an idle tradition, that this was, in ancient days, the grand port or chief town; and on that account is frequently called Old Lynn. I have observed that in the Book of Domesday, Lena was the name of what is now called the Burgh of Lynn of South Lenn, and of West and North Lenn". North Lynn, adds Blomefield, "was, in the Confessor's reign, in the abbot of Bury, his lordship of Islington extending into it [...] The patronage of the church was in the abbot of Bury, as lords, and Hubert, son of Brixi, of North Len, granted to Sampson, abbot of Bury, by deed, sans date, about the reign of Henry II. all the right he had in the patronage. [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Edmund [...] for many years past been destroyed by the waters". Richards (1812) writes: "Lynn St Edmund's [...] Of his sacred structure not a vestige now remains. We have been able to discover neither the time when it was built, nor yet when it disappeared [...] It seems to have stood many ages: for it was standing in the latter part of the reign of Henry VII [ca. 1500?]; and it probably stood a good while after that; even to the time of the reformation or later. It appears from Parkin's account, that it was standing at the beginning of the 16th century [...] both church and church-yard were completely swept away. It is supposed they stood in the present bed of the river, somewhere nearly opposite to the fort, or the block-house."