Ipswich Florist
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About Ipswich
The town of Ipswich took shape in Anglo-Saxon times as the main centre between York and London for North Sea trade to Scandinavia and the Rhine. It served the Kingdom of East Anglia, and began developing in the time of King Raedwald, supreme ruler of the English (616-624). The famous ship-burial and treasure at Sutton Hoo nearby is probably his grave.
Before that, under the Roman empire, the area was busy as the Orwell and Gipping formed an important route inland to rural towns and settlements. A large Roman fort, part of the coast defences of Britain, stood at Felixstowe, and the largest villa in Suffolk stood at Castle Hill (north-west Ipswich).
Occupation of the region around Ipswich and the rivers had been continuous since the Stone Age, but the settlement at Ipswich itself belongs to the Roman period and after.
The seventh-century town, called 'Gippeswick', was centred near the quay. Towards 700 AD, Frisian potters from the Netherlands area settled in Ipswich and set up the first large-scale potteries in England since Roman times. Their wares were traded far across England, and the industry was unique to Ipswich for 200 years.
With growing prosperity, in about the 720s a large new part of the town was laid out in the Buttermarket area. It was becoming a place of national and international importance. Parts of the ancient road plan still survive in its modern streets.
After the invasion of 869 Ipswich fell under Viking rule. The earth ramparts circling the town centre were probably raised by Vikings in Ipswich around 900 to prevent its recapture by the English. They were unsuccessful.
The town operated a Mint under royal licence from King Edgar of England in the 970s, which continued right through the Norman Conquest until the time of King John, c1215, under each successive ruler. The name 'Gipeswic' appears on the coins.
The Ipswich Museum houses replicas of the Roman Mildenhall Treasure and the Sutton Hoo treasure, and a gallery devoted to the town's origins includes Saxon weapons, jewellery and other artefacts.
King John granted the town its first charter in 1200, and in the next four centuries it made most of its wealth trading Suffolk cloth with the Continent. Five large religious houses, including two Augustinian Priories, and the Greyfriars, Whitefriars and Blackfriars, stood in mediaeval Ipswich.
During the Middle Ages the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Grace was a famous pilgrimage destination, and attracted a number of royal pilgrims. At the Reformation the statue was taken away to be burned, although it is now believed to have survived and still to exist in Nettuno, Italy.
Around 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer satirised the merchants of Ipswich in the Canterbury Tales.
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the son of a wealthy landowner, was born in Ipswich about 1475. One of Henry VIII's closest political allies, he founded a college in the town in 1528, which is now known as Ipswich School. He remains one of the town's most famed figures.
In the time of Queen Mary the Ipswich Martyrs were burnt at the stake on the Cornhill for their Protestant beliefs. A monument commemorating this event now stands in Christchurch Park.
From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major centre for emigration to New England. This was encouraged by the Town Lecturer, Samuel Ward. His brother Nathaniel Ward was first minister of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Ipswich had a racecourse which ran a mix of flat and National Hunt races from 1710 to 1911.
The painters John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough lived and worked in Ipswich. In 1835, Charles Dickens stayed in Ipswich and used it as a setting for scenes in his novel The Pickwick Papers. The hotel where he resided first opened in 1518; it was then known as The Tavern and is now known as the Great White Horse Hotel. Dickens made the hotel famous in chapter XXI of The Pickwick Papers, vividly describing the hotel's meandering corridors and stairs.
In 1797 Lord and Lady Nelson moved to Ipswich, and in 1800 Lord Nelson was appointed High Steward of Ipswich.
