Stowmarket, Suffolk

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Stowmarket is a town in Suffolk

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Stowmarket within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Stowmarket in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Stowmarket.-- market town, par., and township with ry. sta., Suffolk, on river Gipping, 12½ miles NW. of Ipswich - par., 2177 ac., pop. 4106; town and township, pop. 4052; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Thursday. Stowmarket was formerly the county town. It has a county court-house, a corn exchange, an iron foundry, a brewery, and mfrs. of gun-cotton, carriages, bricks, and clay pipes. A large transit traffic in corn, malt, coal, and timber is carried on, principally by means of the Gipping.

Stowmarket in the Domesday Book

A village in Stowmarket hundred, in the county of Suffolk.

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