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