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Imported pottery of Rhenish Merovingian types, imported lava quern-stones and barrel-timbers dendro-dated to 8th century Germany, and finds of continental coinage such as 'porcupine sceattas' indicate trade through the Rhine port towns including Domburg, Dorestad and Andernach, as part of the cultural engagement of Anglo-Saxon England with the ...
Ipswich (/ ˈ ɪ p s w ɪ tʃ / ⓘ) is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, after Peterborough and Norwich. It is 50 miles (80 km) northeast of London and in 2011 had a population of 144,957.
The Haven ports are a group of ports on the east coast of England. Traditionally, only the three deep-water ports of Ipswich, Harwich and Felixstowe, on the confluence of the River Orwell and River Stour, were included. The name has since changed to mean the following five ports: Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk; Port of Ipswich in Suffolk
The Gipeswic dock was therefore the trade capital of the East Anglian Kingdom, situated not far from its royal centre at Rendlesham and Sutton Hoo. During the 7th and 8th centuries the two greatest English ports were York (Eoforwic) and London, and two principal new ports were Gipeswic in the east and Hamwic (Southampton) in the south. Like ...
Port of Tilbury: 1908 London: Forth Ports: 4 Port of London: 2013 London: DP World: 5 Port of Immingham: 1912 Immingham: Associated British Ports: 6 Port of Liverpool: 1971 Liverpool: The Peel Group: 7 Port of Tees: 1992 Middlesbrough: PD Ports: 8 Port of Tyne: 1968 Tyne and Wear: Port of Tyne Authority 9 Port of Bristol: 1978 Bristol: The ...
The Ipswich Docks, Ipswich wet dock and the wet dock, are a series of docks in Port of Ipswich located at a bend of the River Orwell which has been used for trade since at least the 8th Century. A wet dock was constructed in 1842 which was 'the biggest enclosed dock in the United Kingdom ' at the time.
Excavation work at Ipswich has revealed that the town expanded out to become 50 hectares (120 acres) in size during Ælfwald's reign, [24] when it was known as Gipeswic. [25] It is generally considered that Gipeswic, as the trade capital of Ælfwald's kingdom, developed under the king's patronage.
Bank of the River Orwell. The River Orwell flows through the county of Suffolk in England from Ipswich to Felixstowe.Above Ipswich, the river is known as the River Gipping, but its name changes to the Orwell at Stoke Bridge, about half a mile below where the river becomes tidal by Bobby Robson Bridge on West End Road. [1]