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Extract from the Ipswich Travel Guides:
Situated at the head of the Orwell estuary,
IPSWICH
was a rich trading port in the Middle Ages, but its appearance today is mainly the result of a revival of fortunes in the Victorian era - give or take some clumsy postwar development. The two surviving reminders of old Ipswich -
Christchurch Mansion
and the splendid
Ancient House
- plus the recently renovated quayside are all reason enough to spend at least an afternoon here. Ipswich also boasts a wealth of medieval flint churches, some now locked and slowly rusting away, but others sympathetically restored. One now houses the tourist office, from...
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