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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.
The Port of Ipswich can be dated to c.625. The name Ipswich was originally Gippeswyc, [ 1 ] referring to the River Gyppes with a suffix derived from the Scandinavian term vik, which had evolved from meaning bay or inlet to mean landing-place, following the proliferation of merchants requiring places to unload their goods and conduct trade. [ 2 ]
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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]
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USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Kentucky (1974) See also. List of rivers in the United States This page was last edited on 27 October 2024, at 02:54 (UTC). ...
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The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio. The Big Sandy River , called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River , approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [ 7 ] in western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky in the United States .