Eye

Eye (A.S. ig, 'an island'), a market-town and municipal borough in Suffolk, 20 miles N. of Ipswich. It has a fine Perpendicular flint-work church (restored 1869), with a tower 101 feet high, a corn exchange and town-hall (1857), a grammar-school (restored and enlarged, 1876–82), and a station at the terminus of a short branch-railway. Till 1885 it returned a member to parliament. Pop. (1851) 2587; (1881) 2296; (1891) 2064.