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St Nicholas Street, Ipswich, Suffolk

Ipswich Ipswich is a large port town in Suffolk, standing on the estuary of the River Orwell. A little downstream is the complementary port of Felixstowe, while nearby also is Harwich. Ipswich has been a major port since Anglo-Saxon times and perhaps earlier; one of the few such to remain an important port to this day. It was known in those days as Gipeswic, echoed in the name of the River Gipping; the non-tidal section of the Orwell. Ipswich today consists of a fine historic core with mediæval and Tudor merchants' buildings, surrounded by incongruent modern suburbs. (Read more)