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Suffolk (Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Lowestoft, Felixstowe,
Sudbury, Haverhill, Bungay)
Ipswich
The area surrounding Ipswich attracted habitation from the Stone
Age on. Although there was a Roman villa near the northern boundary
of what became Ipswich and a Roman road ran through the site, the
origins of Ipswich are considered to lie in the seventh century.
An earlier Anglo-Saxon settlement in the
vicinity lay on the west bank of the River Gipping, but seems to
have been no more than a few farms. The town's name, which in
medieval times was Gippeswyc, probably refers to the wic on the
Gipping another proposed derivation of the name connects it with the
Saxon "gip", meaning corner of the mouth, and alluding to the point
where the mouth of the fresh-water Gipping turned to enter the
salt-water Orwell estuary.
This associates the name with a later
focus of Anglo-Saxon settlement, on an east-west ridge crossing the
present town centre. On the eastern side of that later settlement
have been found kilns which were used for firing pottery made on a
slow wheel.
This distinctive type of pottery was
called "Ipswich ware"
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