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Ipswich

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About Ipswich

Ipswich is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, located on the Orwell river. 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 65 miles (105 km) northeast of London and in 2011 had a population of 144,957. The Ipswich built-up area is the fourth-largest in the East of England and the 42nd-largest in England and Wales. It includes the towns and villages of Kesgrave, Woodbridge, Bramford and Martlesham Heath.

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There is only one street in the whole world called Coprolite, and that's here in Ipswich. It's amazing they haven't named any other streets after fossilised poo.

from 401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 at 00:39:30 · read transcript

Other times Ipswich came up

  1. Oh. Which is in Suffolk for anyone overseas listening. Yeah, it's Copperlight Street. It was named that because there was a guy called Edward Packer who started basically a fossil feces factory burning it up and using the energy. He was known as the golden muckman of Ipswich or the copperlight. King. The copper-like king. Man, what a great name. Where are they finding enough fossils to...

    No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 · listen

  2. Afternoon all, you must know by now if you've been paying attention over the last couple of months that I have for some reason committed to traveling the country with these three upcoming idiots. We are going to all sorts of exotic places like Ipswich, Barnstaple, Pool, Reading, Peterborough, Chesterfield, but popping over to Dublin, we're going up to Scotland, few locations there. Obviously, sitting on a tour bus for months on end with Dan, James and Andy is not how any sane person would choose to spend their time.

    389: No Such Thing As A Semen Chest, 2021-09-03 · listen

  3. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Ipswich. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days. In a particular order, here we go. Starting with fact number one, and that is my fact.

    No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 · listen

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