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Website. ipswich.gov.uk. Ipswich (/ ˈɪpswɪtʃ / ⓘ) is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, [ 4 ][ 5 ] and the second-largest population centre in East of England, Norwich being the largest. It is 80 miles (130 km) northeast of London and in ...
4 days ago · Ipswich prospered as a port for the export of East Anglian textiles from medieval times to the 17th century. In 1200 King John granted the town its first charter, and the town was incorporated in 1446. A period of decline was followed by renewed expansion in the 19th century when light engineering firms were established there.
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Ipswich Corporation was the local authority which ran the town of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. It was founded in 1200 and abolished in 1974, being replaced by Ipswich Borough Council. The corporation's formal name until 1835 was the "bailiffs, burgesses and commonalty of the town or borough of Ipswich", and after 1836 was the "mayor, aldermen ...
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Ipswich started as a small trading settlement in the early 7th century. There are 2 theories about how Ipswich got its name. It may have been Gippa’s wic (wic is an old word meaning port). Or it may have been Gip’s wic (gip meant corner, in this case, the corner of the river Orwell). Whichever is true Ipswich soon became a flourishing town. It was ...
By the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 Ipswich probably had a population of 2,000. It would seem tiny to us but by the standards of the time, it was a medium-sized town. Later in the Middle Ages, the population grew larger and was probably about 3,000 by the 14th century. In the late 11th or early 12th century, a wooden castle was built in Ipsw...
A new school, St Marys was founded in 1528. Then in 1538, Henry VIII closed the priories and the friaries in Ipswich. Edmund Withipoll built Christchurch Mansion after 1548 on the site of an Augustinian priory. The house was damaged by fire in the 17th century and partly rebuilt. Ancient House dates from the 15th century. In 1670 Robert Sparrowe, a...
In the 17th century timber and iron were still imported into Ipswich from Scandinavia and hemp for rope-making was imported from Latvia. Grain was exported from Ipswich. In the 17th century, the coastal trade to and from Ipswich thrived. In those days it was expensive to transport goods by road and whenever possible they were taken by water. Many g...
During the 18th century, the population of Ipswich grew more slowly. It reached 11,000 by 1800. By the standards of the time, Ipswich was a fair-sized town and it was quite prosperous. Ipswich gained its first newspaper in 1720 and its first theatre in 1736. Although the wool trade in Ipswich was now dead other industries flourished such as shipbui...
Ipswich grew rapidly in the 19th century. The population of Ipswich was 11,000 in 1801 but it rose to almost 33,000 in 1851 and reached 66,000 by the end of the century. n In the 19th century Ipswich became a major manufacturing center. In Ipswich, iron foundries made farm machinery and railway parts. Other industries were brewing and malting, bric...
In the 20th century, Ipswich’s population grew more slowly. From 66,000 in 1901 it rose to 123,000 in 1971. From 1903 electric trams ran in the streets of Ipswich but the service ended in 1926. Meanwhile, during World War I Ipswich suffered 2 zeppelin raids. The first in 1915 caused no casualties but a second in 1916 killed 1 man. During the 1920s ...
The town was incorporated as Ipswich the following year. The strain of King Philip’s War left the colony exhausted, and the General Court enacted a series of restrictive and irksome laws. In 1681, Mason’s Claim threatened to make every land title worthless, and in 1684 King Charles II of England revoked the Colony’s charter.
The Society engages with the existing, the proposed and the new developments via the Ipswich Borough Council planning process and by being part of the Ipswich Conservation & Design Panel. We also recognise and celebrate the rich legacy of the architectural past and its care and use today and in the future. with over 700 listed buildings in the town, we have a valuable, useful resource.
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Feb 7, 2011 · A Zoom presentation about the history of Ipswich, UK for viewers in Ipswich, Australia put on by @ipswich_libraries Episode 6 of the Ipswich History Podcast is now available. It features a conversation with Pat Grimwade from the Ipswich Maritime Trust about Ipswich’s little-known connections to the Hanseatic League, which once dominated much of Late Medieval European trade.
