Local information
Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk. It is located on the estuary of the River Orwell and over the last ten years there has been extensive development centred around the former industrial docks known as the waterfront.Despite a number of attempts for city status, Ipswich remains a town with a resident population of 133,384(2011 census) however it has a primary catchment population of approximately 386,000.
The town has five road junctions with the trunk road A14, which links with the largest container port in the UK, Felixstowe, about 15 miles to the east, and also with the trunk road A12 which gives the most direct link to London (approximately 70 miles to the south west) and to the north east to Lowestoft, small market towns and the Heritage Coast. The A14 provides trunk road and motorway networks to Cambridge (approximately 52 miles to the west) Norwich (approximately 42 miles to the north west) and also to the rest of East Anglia and the UK. Ipswich station is approx. 0.5 miles/7mins walk to the west and provides railway links to Norwich and London with best journey times of 38 mins and 67 mins respectively.
Ipswich (National Rail)