Wright, William, boot and shoe maker, Church street
Wright, James, shopkeeper, Bredfield st.
Wright, John, baker, Bredfield street
Wright, John, plumber and glazier, Brook street
Wrinch, Henry, corn merchant, Cumberland street
Youell, John, horsebreaker, Cutting’s lane
IPSWICH.
Ipswich is a flourishing market town and port, and the capital of the Eastern division of the county of Suffolk, pleasantly situated on the North-east side of the Gripping. By means of the Eastern Union Railway, Ipswich has now a direct communication with London, Colchester, Norwich, Peterborough, and all parts of the kingdom, and is distant 68 miles N.E. of London; 17 miles N.E. of Colchester; 45 S. of Norwich; 54 S.S.W. of Yarmouth; 8½ W.S.W. of Woodbridge; and 26 miles S.E. by E. of Bury St. Edmund’s. Contained in 1831, 20,454 inhabitants; in 1841, 24,000; and in 1851, 32,697. It stands on a gentle declivity, forming part of a circle round a reach of the river, and over which there is an iron bridge, leading to Stoke.
The Public Buildings are—the Town Hall; the Custom House, situated on the Quay; the Corn Exchange; the County Gaol; and the Borough Gaol, in the front of which are the Courts for holding the Summer Assizes, and the Sessional business of the district. This is an Assize town for Suffolk, place of election, polling place for East Suffolk, a Poor Law Union, and a County Court. The chief trade of the town arises from the export of corn, malt, cheese, and butter, agricultural implements, &c.
Messrs. Ransomes and Sims., the celebrated agricultural implement makers, have opened an immense trade and manufacture in the town during the last few years. The Eagle Foundry of Mr. Mason, and St. Peter’s Foundry, belonging to Messrs. Turner, are large establishments, and employ a large number of hands. There are breweries, maltings, tanneries, ship and boat yards, coach works, cooperages, rope yards, shot foundry, anastatic printing works, soapery, seed mills, manufactory of bricks, tiles, Roman cement, artificial stone, lime, tobacco pipes, baskets, &c.