 Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street Ipswich (pronunciation (help·
info); IPA: /ˈɪpswɪtʃ/) is a non-metropolitan district in and the county town of Suffolk, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. The town of the same name overspills the borough boundaries significantly, with only 85% of the town's population living within the borough at the time of the 2001 Census, when it was the third-largest settlement in the United Kingdom's East of England region, and the 38th largest urban area in England.[2] There are a number of places named Ipswich: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Ipswich, England Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States Ipswich, South Dakota, United States There are also articles about: Ipswich Town F.C. - an English Football League team Ipswich (musician) - the stage name for a British singer Ipswichian interglacial This is a...
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Sir Michael Nicholson Lord (born October 17, 1938, Manchester) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Suffolk Central and Ipswich North. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1076x768, 211 KB) Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street in Ipswich town centre. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x774, 212 KB) The Ancient House in Buttermarket Ipswich has a facade which shows a particularly fine example of w:pargeting. ...
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As of 2006, the borough is estimated to have a population of approximately 120,000 inhabitants. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
History The Eemian interglacial is known as the Ipswichian period in geology and occurred about 120,000 years ago.[3] Two ice core temperature records; the Eemian is at a depth of about 1500-1800 meters in the lower graph The Eemian interglacial era (known as the Sangamon interglacial in North America, the Ipswichian interglacial in the UK, and the Riss-Würm interglacial in the Alps) is the second...
Under the Roman empire, the area around Ipswich formed an important route inland to rural towns and settlements via the Orwell and Gipping. A large Roman fort, part of the coast defences of Britain, stood at Felixstowe (13 miles, 21 km), and the largest villa in Suffolk stood at Castle Hill (north-west Ipswich). For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ...
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, For the Aircraft manufacturer, see Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe Felixstowe is a North Sea seaport in Suffolk, England. ...
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Ipswich is one of England's oldest towns,[4][5] and took shape in Anglo-Saxon times as the main centre between York and London for North Sea trade to Scandinavia and the Rhine. It served the Kingdom of East Anglia, and began developing in the time of King Rædwald, supreme ruler of the English (616-624). The famous ship-burial and treasure at Sutton Hoo nearby (9 miles, 14.5 km) is probably his grave. The Ipswich Museum houses replicas of the Roman Mildenhall Treasure and the Sutton Hoo treasure. A gallery devoted to the town's origins includes Anglo-Saxon weapons, jewellery and other artefacts. There are various towns which lay rival claims to be the oldest town in Britain: Abingdon in Oxfordshire Colchester in Essex Marazion in Cornwall Contents // (See talk. ...
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Rædwald, son of Tytila, was King of the East Angles from c 600 AD until his death in c 624 AD. From c 616 he became the most powerful of the English rulers south of the River Humber, and by military action installed a Northumbrian ruler acquiescent to his...
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The seventh-century town, called 'Gippeswick'[6] was centred near the quay. Towards 700 AD, Frisian potters from the Netherlands area settled in Ipswich and set up the first large-scale potteries in England since Roman times. Their wares were traded far across England, and the industry was unique to Ipswich for 200 years.[7][8] With growing prosperity, in about 720 AD a large new part of the town was laid out in the Buttermarket area. Ipswich was becoming a place of national and international importance.[9] Parts of the ancient road plan still survive in its modern streets. After the invasion of 869 Ipswich fell under Viking rule. The earth ramparts circling the town centre were probably raised by Vikings in Ipswich around 900 to prevent its recapture by the English.[10][11] They were unsuccessful. The town operated a Mint under royal licence from King Edgar of England in the 970s, which continued through the Norman Conquest until the time of King John, in about 1215.[12] The abbreviation 'Gipes' appears on the coins. For other uses, see Viking (disambiguation). ...
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King John granted the town its first charter in 1200, laying the mediaeval foundations of its modern civil government.[13][14] In the next four centuries it made the most of its wealth, trading Suffolk cloth with the Continent.[citation needed] Five large religious houses, including two Augustinian Priories (St Peter and St Paul, and Holy Trinity, both mid-12th century[15]), and those of the Greyfriars (Franciscans, before 1298), Ipswich Whitefriars (Carmelites founded 1278-79) and Blackfriars (Dominicans, before 1263), stood in mediaeval Ipswich. The last Carmelite Prior of Ipswich was the celebrated John Bale, author of the oldest English historical verse-drama (Kynge Johan, c.1538).[16] There were also several hospitals, including the leper hospital of St Mary Magdalene, founded before 1199. During the Middle Ages the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Grace was a famous pilgrimage destination, and attracted many pilgrims including Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.[17][18] At the Reformation the statue was taken away to London to be burned, though some claim that it survived and is preserved at Nettuno, Italy.[19] A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document establishing a municipality such as a city or town. ...
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Around 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer satirised the merchants of Ipswich in the Canterbury Tales. Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the son of a wealthy landowner, was born in Ipswich about 1475. One of Henry VIII's closest political allies, he founded a college in the town in 1528, which was for its brief duration one of the homes of the Ipswich School.[20] He remains one of the town's most famed figures. Chaucer redirects here. ...
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Ipswich School is a private day and boarding school in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, serving pupils of both sexes from two to eighteen years of age. ...
In the time of Queen Mary the Ipswich Martyrs were burnt at the stake on the Cornhill for their Protestant beliefs. A monument commemorating this event now stands in Christchurch Park. From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major centre for emigration to New England. This was encouraged by the Town Lecturer, Samuel Ward. His brother Nathaniel Ward was first minister of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where a promontory was named 'Castle Hill' after the place of that name in north-west Ipswich, UK. Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July 1553 (de facto) or 19 July 1553 (de jure) until her death on 17 November 1558. ...
The Cornhill in Ipswich, Suffolk, fronted by the Town Hall, has been at the centre of the towns life since Anglo-Saxon Times, the focus for markets, public meetings, fairs and civic ceremonies. ...
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Christchurch Park is a 70-acre area of rolling lawns, wooded areas, and delicately created arboreta in central Ipswich, Suffolk, England. ...
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Samuel Ward (1577-1639) was an English academic and a master at the University of Cambridge. ...
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The painter Thomas Gainsborough lived and worked in Ipswich. In 1835, Charles Dickens stayed in Ipswich and used it as a setting for scenes in his novel The Pickwick Papers. The hotel where he resided first opened in 1518; it was then known as The Tavern and is now known as the Great White Horse Hotel. Dickens made the hotel famous in chapter XXI of The Pickwick Papers, vividly describing the hotel's meandering corridors and stairs. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. ...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. ...
In 1797 Lord and Lady Nelson moved to Ipswich, and in 1800 Lord Nelson was appointed High Steward of Ipswich. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, a decisive British victory in the war, during which he lost his life. ...
In the mid-19th century Coprolite was discovered, the material was mined and then dissolved in acid, the resulting mixture forming the basis of Fisons fertilizer business.[21] Coprolite is the name given to the mineral that results when human or animal semen is fossilized. ...
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Fisons Plc was a British pharmaceutical, scientific instrument and horticultural chemical maufacturer based in Ipswich, in the United Kingdom. ...
Modern Ipswich Ipswich has undergone an extensive gentrification programme in recent years, principally centred around the waterfront. Though this has turned a deindustrialized dock area into an emerging residential and commercial centre, it is being completed at the expense of much of the town's industrial and maritime heritage and in spite of efforts made by a local civic group, The Ipswich Society. Much of this development is residential and is marketed at high net-worth individuals in the DINKY demographic. As such, some have considered it incompatible with Ipswich's existing socio-economic mix. It could therefore be considered to be aimed at encouraging economic migration to the town, particularly as a commutable satellite town of London. In San Francisco, during the mid-1960s, the bohemian center of the city shifted from the old Beat enclave of North Beach to Haight-Ashbury (pictured) as a response to gentrification. ...
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The Tolly Cobbold brewery, built in the 19th century and rebuilt 1894–1896, is one of the finest Victorian breweries in the United Kingdom. There was a Cobbold brewery in the town from 1746 until 2002 when Ridley's Breweries took Tolly Cobbold over.[22] Felix Thornley Cobbold presented Christchurch Mansion to the town in 1896. Tolly Cobbold is a former brewing company, with strong roots in Suffolk, England. ...
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Felix Thornley Cobbold, MP, (8 September 1841 – 6 December 1909) was a Cambridge educated barrister, a senior fellow of Kings College, Cambridge and an English politician. ...
Christchurch Mansion is a stately home in the centre of Ipswich, England. ...
The town centre contains the glass-clad building owned by Willis Limited, properly called the Willis Building but still often called the "Willis-Faber building" by locals, as the company Willis Corroon themselves used to be called Willis Faber. Designed by Norman Foster, the building dates from 1974. It became the youngest Grade I listed building in Britain in 1991 and at the time one of only two buildings to be listed and be under 30 years of age.[24] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 603 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, was one of Norman Fosters earliest commissions after founding Foster Associates. ...
Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, was one of Norman Fosters earliest commissions after founding Foster Associates. ...
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Ipswich is set to be the main hub for University Campus Suffolk, which will give Suffolk its first university, though it is essentially a collaborative project between Suffolk College and two other regional universities. It is hoped that within a decade, a University of Suffolk in its own right will become established out of UCS. University Campus Suffolk is an educational institution located in the county of Suffolk, United Kingdom that will welcome its first students in September 2007. ...
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On 13 March 2007 Ipswich was awarded the cleanest town award.[25] is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Ipswich remains a 'town' despite a few attempts at winning 'city' status.[26] It does not have a cathedral, so the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich is based at Bury St Edmunds the former headquarters of West Suffolk. Seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in the Cathedral Church of Saint James, Bury St Edmunds The Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich in the Province of Canterbury. ...
, Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England, and was formerly the county town of West Suffolk. ...
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Districts The Docks is the area around the old commercial docks that are now devoted essentially to leisure use. The area includes extensive recent development of residential apartment blocks and includes the campus of the new University College.
Holywells is the area around Holywells Park, a 67 acre (27 ha) public park, situated near the docks, that was painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Holywells Park as portrayed by Thomas Gainsborough Holywells Park is a 67 acre public park in Ipswich, England situated between Nacton Road and Cliff Lane, near the docks. ...
Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. ...
Chantry is the name of a housing estate and park to the South-West of Ipswich. Its schools include Chantry High School and the Chantry Infant and Junior Schools which have merged, and been renamed 'The Oaks'. Another school that can be found in the outskirts of Chantry is St Joseph's College.
Other districts outside the town centre include Bixley Farm, Broke Hall, California, Castle Hill, The Dales, Gainsborough, Greenwich, Kesgrave, Maidenhall, Pinebrook, Priory Heath, Racecourse, Ravenswood, Rose Hill, Rushmere, Springvale, St Margarets, Stoke, Warren Heath, Whitehouse and Whitton.
To the east of the town is Trinity Park near Bucklesham the home of the annual Suffolk Show one of the County shows in United Kingdom. The 'Trinity' is the name given to the three animals native to the county of Suffolk, namely Red Poll cattle, the powerful Suffolk Punch horse and the black faced Suffolk Sheep. Bucklesham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, a few miles east of Ipswich. ...
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Culture
 Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich, was one of Norman Foster's earliest commissions. Like many other similar towns, Ipswich is home to many artists, with galleries at Christchurch Mansion, the Town Hall, a gallery in the Ancient House and the Artists Gallery in Electric House being the more prominent. The visual arts are further supported with many sites of sculpture with easy accessibility. The Borough Council promotes creation of new public works of art and has been known to make this a condition of planning permission.[27] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1252x790, 193 KB) Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, in Ipswich, England (also known as the Willis building). This building was one of Norman Fosters first major commissions. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1252x790, 193 KB) Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, in Ipswich, England (also known as the Willis building). This building was one of Norman Fosters first major commissions. ...
The restored Reichstag in Berlin, housing the German parliament. ...
Christchurch Mansion is a stately home in the centre of Ipswich, England. ...
The Ancient House, Ipswich The Ancient House, Ipswich, also known as Sparrowes House, is a Grade I listed building dating from the 1400s located in the Buttermarket area. ...
The town houses Ipswich Museum and the Ipswich Transport Museum. IPSWICH MUSEUM Early History 1846-1945 Ipswich Museum was founded in 1846 and opened in 1847 in Museum Street, then newly laid-out, with the specific remit to educate the working classes in natural history. ...
The Ipswich Transport Museum is a museum in Ipswich, Suffolk, England devoted principally to the history of road vehicles as represented by those used or built in its local area. ...
Performing arts are well represented with Ipswich being home to DanceEast which has the primary aim of advocating innovation and development of dance in the East of England.[28] They are building new premises as part of the waterfront development. These will be the first custom built dance facilities in the East of England at a cost of around £8million.
The Eastern Angles theatre group are based at the Sir John Mills Theatre [1] in Ipswich, named after the famous actor who lived in Felixstowe as a child. John Mills as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the Thames Television science-fiction serial Quatermass (1979). ...
Since 1991, there has been an annual arts festival called Ip-Art [2] which brings together many events across art disciplines and different venues, notably a free music day in Christchurch Park, which in 2006 had over 50 different acts performing over 7 stages. An arts festival (also art festival) or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts. ...
Christchurch Park is a 70-acre area of rolling lawns, wooded areas, and delicately created arboreta in central Ipswich, Suffolk, England. ...
Norwich remains the regional centre for TV broadcasting, but both BBC East and Anglia TV have presenters and offices in Ipswich. The town has three local radio stations, BBC Radio Suffolk covering the entire county, where the East Anglian Accent can be heard on its many phone-ins, the commercial SGR-FM which was founded in 1975 as Radio Orwell covering the A14 corridor in Suffolk and Town 102 which was founded in 2006 and is the first full time commercial station specific for Ipswich. The younger audience is catered for with Suffolk based Kiss 105-108. On 15 August 2007, Ipswich Community Radio launched full-time after successfully gaining a licence in early 2006. For other places with the same name, see Norwich (disambiguation). ...
BBC East is the BBC English Region that produces local television and radio programming for Norfolk, Suffolk, northern Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, southern Northamptonshire andBuckinghamshire. ...
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BBC Radio Suffolk is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Suffolk, commencing broadcasts on 12 April 1990. ...
The East Anglian Accent is the name generally given to the group of English accents used by the majority of people in the rural eastern part of England, popularly known as East Anglia. ...
The Radio Orwell logo SGR FM evolved from Suffolk Group Radio which was the parent company for two Independent Local Radio stations serving the county of Suffolk in England. ...
Town 102 is a radio station serving Ipswich, owned by Tindle Radio plc. ...
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The town's daily evening newspaper is the Evening Star (Ipswich) which is the sister title to the county's daily morning newspaper the East Anglian Daily Times. The main office of the Evening Star in Lower Brook Street, Ipswich. ...
The East Anglian Daily Times is a daily newspaper for Suffolk and Essex. ...
Buildings In addition to Christchurch Mansion and the Ancient House, Ipswich in the 21st century has some important cultural buildings including the New Wolsey Theatre and the Regent Theatre - the largest theatre venue in East Anglia where in the 1960's The Beatles performed under its former name the Gaumont. The Regent Theatre is a theatre in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. ...
Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ...
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Gaumont Pictures were founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). ...
There are several medieval[29] Ipswich churches but the grandest is the Victorian St Mary le Tower.
Modern buildings include the new Suffolk County Hall in the area known as Ipswich Village close to Ipswich Town's Portman Road stadium. The stadium has hosted England under 21, under 23 and full international matches in addition to an England hockey game. Suffolk (pronounced ) is a large historic and modern non-metropolitan county in East Anglia, England. ...
Portman Road is the home ground of English Football club Ipswich Town. ...
On the north-west side of Ipswich lies Broomhill Pool, a Grade II listed Olympic-sized lido which opened in 1938 and closed in 2002, since which time a campaign to see it restored and re-opened has been run.
Politics
 Ipswich Borough Council offices, on Russell Road Ipswich is governed locally by a two-tier Council System. Ipswich Borough Council fulfils District Council functions such as refuse collection, housing and planning and Suffolk County Council provides the County Council services such as transport, education and social services. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 469 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1203 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Suffolk County Council Is the administrative authority for the county of Suffolk, England, providing a range of services under the control of elected county councillors that include education, planning, transport and streets, social services, public safety and more. ...
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Between 1979 and September 2004 Ipswich Borough Council was under Labour control but the town is now governed by a coalition of Conservative and Liberal Democrat Councillors with Labour in opposition. The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is currently the largest majortiy opposition party in the United Knigdom. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, is a liberal political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had already been in an alliance for seven years prior to this, since not long...
Suffolk County Council was controlled by a Labour/Liberal Democrat administration between May 1993 and May 2005 but has since reverted to Conservative control, although 10 out of the 13 County Councillors representing Ipswich are Labour and only 1 is a Conservative.
The town is covered by two parliamentary constituencies – Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency), which covers about 75% and is represented by Labour MP Chris Mole, and Central Suffolk & North Ipswich, which covers the remaining 25% and is represented by Conservative MP Michael Lord. Ipswich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Chris Mole Christopher David Mole (born March 16, 1958, Bromley) is the current member of Parliament for Ipswich in east England, and a member of the ruling Labour Party. ...
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Sir Michael Nicholson Lord (born October 17, 1938, Manchester) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Suffolk Central and Ipswich North. ...
In April 2006 the borough council initiated public discussions about the idea of turning the borough into a unitary authority[30] (Ipswich had constituted a county borough from 1889 to 1974, independent of the administrative county of East Suffolk, and this status was not restored by the Banham/Cooksey Commission in the 1990s). Ipswich, Norwich, Exeter and Oxford united to campaign for unitary authority status for the four towns, hoping to use the window of opportunity presented by the October 2006 Local Government White Paper. In March 2007, it was announced that Ipswich was one of sixteen shortlisted councils[31] and on the 2007-07-25, the Secretary of state announced that she was minded to implement the unitary proposal for Ipswich, but that there were 'a number of risks relating to the financial case set out in the proposal',[32] on which she invited Ipswich to undertake further work before a final decision is taken.[33] Early in December plans were thrown into doubt as the Government announced that it had 'delayed' the unitary bids for Ipswich and Exeter.[34] Non-metropolitan districts or commonly Shire districts are a type of local government district in England. ...
A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. ...
County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ...
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The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in the southwest of England, also known as the West Country. ...
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There is no single system of local government in the United Kingdom. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Industry
 4 Fairline Yachts outside Fairline's Ipswich testing facility Industry around Ipswich has had a strong agricultural bias with Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd, one of the most famous agricultural manufacturers, located in the town. It is notable that the world's first commercial motorised lawnmower was built by Ransomes in 1902. There was a sugar beet factory at Ipswich for many years; it was closed in 2001 as part of a rationalisation by British Sugar. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3648 × 2736 pixel, file size: 3. ...
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Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Engineers of Ipswich were a major British agricultural machinery maker. ...
A lawn mower (often spelled as one word—lawnmower) is a machine (electric or mechnical) used to cut grass to an even length. ...
Two sugar beets - the one on the left has been cultivated to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. ...
In 1936 the United Kingdom parliament nationalised the entire UK sugar beet crop processing industry to form the British Sugar Corporation. ...
The British Telecom Research Laboratories were located to the east of the town in 1975 at Martlesham Heath. They are now a science park called Adastral Park. The area was originally RAF Martlesham Heath - a WW2 airfield from where Douglas Bader fought. BT Group plc (which trades as just BT, and is commonly known by its former name, British Telecom) is the privatised former British state telecommunications operator. ...
Map sources for Martlesham Heath at grid reference TM2547 Martlesham Heath village is situated 6 miles east of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. ...
A science park is a property development designed for a concentration of high tech or science related businesses. ...
Adastral Park is the name given to what was once the BT Research Laboratories based at Martlesham Heath near Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. ...
Martlesham Heath Airfield - 9 July 1946. ...
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, FRAeS, DL, RAF (21 February 1910–5 September 1982); surname pronounced IPA: ) was a successful fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. ...
Ipswich is one of the Haven ports and is still a working port, handling several million tonnes of cargo each year. Prior to decommissioning, HMS Grafton was a regular visitor to the port which as special links with the town and the county of Suffolk. HMS Orwell, named after the river, is also closely linked with the town. With the rise in popularity of the town around the Neptune Marina and the Wet Dock a number of ship and boatbuilders have become established, in particular Fairline Yachts are a significant employer. Major Ports The Haven Ports are a group of five docks on the East Coast of England, these are Felixstowe, Ipswich, Harwich International[1], Harwich Navyard and Mistley. ...
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HMS Grafton (F80) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. ...
At least three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Orwell: The first Orwell was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1901. ...
Fairline Boats Ltd[1] are a English motor yacht builder, currently owned by 3i. ...
Transport infrastructure
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Road The A12 links Ipswich to London (84 miles), Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and the M25. The A14 links the town with Cambridge (57 miles), the Midlands and Felixstowe. The A140(single carriageway) links the town with Norwich. The A12 is a major road in England, a trunk road for most of its length, running from London to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. ...
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, Lowestoft (pronouned IPA: /loʊs tɔft, -tɒft, -təf/) is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, lying between the eastern edge of The Broads National Park at Oulton Broad and the North Sea. ...
Great Yarmouth, often known to locals simply as Yarmouth, is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. ...
The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
The A14 is a major road in England, running from the Port of Felixstowe to the junction of the M1 and M6 motorways near Rugby. ...
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, For the Aircraft manufacturer, see Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe Felixstowe is a North Sea seaport in Suffolk, England. ...
// The A140 is a road in the United Kingdom running from the A14 near Ipswich northward to A149 south of Cromer. ...
For other places with the same name, see Norwich (disambiguation). ...
A Roman road originally known as Pye Road and part of which is now the [A140], linked Colchester with Caistor St. Edmund near Norwich.[35] An old milestone in Ipswich shows London as 69 miles (111 km) and Gt Yarmouth 54 miles (87 km) north. Not to be confused with Romans road. ...
For other places with the same name, see Colchester (disambiguation). ...
Caistor St Edmund is a village (population 270) on the River Tas, near Norwich, Norfolk, England. ...
A Spanish kilometre stone A milestone on the Boston Post Road in Harvard Square, Massachusetts, USA Slate milestone near Bangor, Wales A milestone or kilometre sign is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in...
Rail Ipswich railway station is located on the Great Eastern Main Line from London Liverpool Street to Norwich. It is also the junction of railway lines to Felixstowe and Lowestoft. The station is served by National Express East Anglia. There is another railway station serving the Rose Hill area, called Derby Road which is on the line to Felixstowe. The front of Ipswich station Ipswich railway station is a railway station serving the town of Ipswich in Suffolk. ...
The Great Eastern Main Line, or the GE, is a major railway line of the British railway system, which connects Liverpool Street station in the City of London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including Ipswich, Norwich and several coastal resorts. ...
Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
For other places with the same name, see Norwich (disambiguation). ...
, For the Aircraft manufacturer, see Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe Felixstowe is a North Sea seaport in Suffolk, England. ...
, Lowestoft (pronouned IPA: /loʊs tɔft, -tɒft, -təf/) is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, lying between the eastern edge of The Broads National Park at Oulton Broad and the North Sea. ...
One Railway (or simply One) is the brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd, a British company which operates local, suburban and express services from London Liverpool Street in the City of London to East and North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, otherwise known as the Greater Anglia...
Derby Road railway station is a railway station serving the Rose Hill area of Ipswich in Suffolk. ...
Bus & tram Bus services are operated by Ipswich Buses and First Eastern Counties. Route number 66 is a partially guided busway connecting Martlesham Heath and Kesgrave to the town and the railway station.[36] It also had a trolleybus system from 2 September 1923 until 23 August 1963.[37] Ipswich Buses is a bus company that operates in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. It has been operating bus services in the town for 103 years. ...
First Eastern Counties is a major bus operator in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern England. ...
Ipswich Rapid Transit is a high-quality bus system serving the town of Ipswich in south east England. ...
Bus rapid transit (BRT) is a relatively new umbrella term for urban mass transportation services utilizing buses to perform premium services on existing roadways or dedicated rights-of-way. ...
Map sources for Martlesham Heath at grid reference TM2547 Martlesham Heath village is situated 6 miles east of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. ...
Map sources for Kesgrave at grid reference TM2145 Kesgrave is a town in Suffolk, England, half way between Woodbridge and The gates of hell. ...
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is an electric bus powered by two overhead wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. ...
is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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It is the last place in the area to have an independent bus company with the unusual practice of naming its buses.[citation needed]
Air - See also: Ipswich Airport
The town used to feature a small grass-runway airport (ICAO code: EGSE), opened by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on 26 June 1930 with regular flights to Clacton, Southend and Jersey by Channel Airways and later to the Netherlands and Manchester by Suckling Airways. The airport was delicensed on 31 December 1996 Ipswich Airport[38] and the area was re-developed into the residential district of Ravenswood with the front of the Grade 2 listed control building, designed by Heining and Chitty in 1938, integrated into new scheme.[39] Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, develops the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ...
is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Town - Clacton-on-Sea Location - Essex, England Founded - 1871 Population (1991) - 45,065 Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring Peninsula, in Essex, England. ...
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Channel Airways was formed in 1946 as East Anglian Flying Services. ...
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