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Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, at the head of the Orwell estuary. Founded in the early 7th century as a trading settlement under the East Anglian kings, it is one of the oldest continuously occupied towns of Anglo-Saxon England, and its kilns produced Ipswich ware, the first mass-produced pottery of the period. It later prospered as a port for wool and cloth.

Ipswich
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Kingdom of East Anglia

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ipswich. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/ipswich
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