Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Ipswich, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 7.7 km
Ascend 162 m
Descend 162 m

Explore Ipswich in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Ipswich

Sight 1: Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter Museum

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The Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter, located under the playground of Clifford Road Primary School in Ipswich was built during the first months of World War II. It was an unusually solid construction, capable of holding several hundred people. After the war, it was sealed up and largely forgotten.

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699 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Alexandra Park

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Alexandra Park is situated between Grove Lane, Kings Avenue and Back Hamlet, Ipswich.

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820 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Ipswich Regent

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Ipswich Regent Theatre is a theatre and concert venue located at St Helen's Street in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The auditorium was refurbished in 2007 and now holds 1,551 people, having reduced the capacity by 150 to accommodate larger and more comfortable seating. It is East Anglia's largest theatre. It has also been known as the Gaumont Theatre. It was designated as a Grade II Listed Building in 2000.

Wikipedia: Regent Theatre, Ipswich (EN)

404 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: St Pancras, Ipswich

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Saint Pancras is an active Roman Catholic parish church serving the town centre of Ipswich, England. The neo-gothic church was built as part of the British Catholic revival in the nineteenth century, and was the target of anti-Catholic riots soon after completion.

Wikipedia: St Pancras Church, Ipswich (EN)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Blackfriars

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Ipswich Blackfriars was a medieval religious house of Friars-preachers (Dominicans) in the town of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, founded in 1263 by King Henry III and dissolved in 1538. It was the second of the three mendicant communities established in the town, the first being the Greyfriars, a house of Franciscan Friars Minors, and the third the Ipswich Whitefriars of c. 1278–79. The Blackfriars were under the Visitation of Cambridge.

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597 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Giles Family

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The Giles family is a fictional British family created by cartoonist Carl Giles at the end of World War II, appearing first on 5 August 1945. Much of Giles's World War II work had been cartoons featuring Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and the typical British Tommy, but he felt the need to expand after the War, hence the family. The format was a single-panel cartoon, published daily in the Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers from 1945 until 1991. An annual collection was published each Christmas.

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494 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: New Wolsey Theatre

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The New Wolsey Theatre is a producing theatre with a café & bar in Ipswich, Suffolk. It is a midsized regional theatre, with a seating capacity of 400.

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329 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: St Mary Elms, Ipswich

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St Mary at the Elms is a Church of England church in Ipswich, England. Historically it was located in the West Ward,Ipswich, but is now in Alexandra Ward, Ipswich.

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254 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: The Unitarian Meeting House

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For the church building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright see Unitarian Meeting House

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547 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: Saint Mary at the Quay

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St Mary-at-the-Quay Church is a former Anglican church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The medieval building is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. and since September 2021 it has been used by River Church to implement an approach to evangelicism developed by Holy Trinity Brompton as part of the network of HTB church plants. The church originally served the thriving industry around the docks area of the town and those that worked there. After closing for regular worship in the 1950s the church was transferred to the CCT in 1973 and underwent a major restoration programme completing in 2016.

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643 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 11: St Mary at Stoke

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Saint Mary at Stoke is a Grade I listed Anglican church in the Old Stoke area of Ipswich.

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1417 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 12: Gippeswyk Park

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Gippeswyk Park is a park in the South West of Ipswich in England. It was bequeathed to Ipswich by the MP Felix Cobbold. The park is located very close to the train station and the park's primary use is for recreation and includes numerous football pitches as well as two tennis courts which are always popular during the summer months.

Wikipedia: Gippeswyk Park (EN)

1273 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 13: St Marks, Ipswich

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St. Mark's Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic church on the Chantry Estate in Ipswich. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia. It opened in May 1959.

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