Who Was Baron Bigod? Named after Baron Hugh Bigod, a French nobleman who arrived on British soil in 1066 with William the Conqueror (AKA King William I). After a successful conquest of Britain, the new King William made Hugh a Baron and gifted him most of East Anglia. Hugh set about building his dream castle on the picturesque River Waveney at Bungay. The ruins of Baron Bigod’s castle still stand to this day, overlooking our farm. Our cows graze today on those same fertile river marshlands that the castle livestock would once have grazed, almost 1000 years ago.