Woodbridge

Woodbridge, a market-town and river-port of Suffolk, on the right bank of the Deben, which expands into an estuary, 12 miles from the sea and 8 ENE. of Ipswich. The Udebyge of Domesday, and the seat of a 12th-century Augustinian friary, it has a fine Perpendicular church with a flint-work tower 108 feet high, a Flemish-looking town-hall, and the richly endowed Seckford almshouses and grammar-school—the former dating from 1587, and rebuilt in 1840 at a cost of £28,000. Bernard Barton and Edward FitzGerald were residents. Vessels of 140 tons can reach the town, which exports corn, malt, and bricks. Pop. 4600.