Ipswich, Suffolk, England
1895 - Ipswich

Ips'wich, a town of England, capital of the co, of Suffolk, on the Orwell, here crossed by a handsome iron bridge, at the influx of the Gipping, at a railway junction,66 miles N.E. of London, and 24 miles S.E. of Bury St. Edmunds. The town stands on a slope, sheltered by hills on the R. and N. It is irregularly built, with streets mostly narrow and houses old-fashioned, though it contains many new and substantial buildings; it is well supplied with water. Principal edifices, the town and county halls, custom-house on the quay, market-house, corn exchange, county and borough jails, an old monastery of Black Friars, the theatre, assembly-rooms; bly-rooms, and barracks. Besides the grammar-school (which was restored by Cardinal Wolsey, and has a noble building constructed since 1851), Ipswich possesses several minor endowed schools and charities, a £ society and mechanics' institution, and a workingmen's college. It has some manufactures of woollen cloths and of yarn, with iron- and soap-factories, breweries, snuff-mills, and docks at which large vessels have been built. The Orwell is navigable to the town for vessels of 300 tons burden. It sends two members to the House of Commons. Ipswich was burnt by the Danes in 991 and 1000; but in later Saxon and Norman times it rose to a high degree of prosperity. William the Conqueror built a castle here, of which some traces still exist. Pop, in 1891, 57,260.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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