Castle Hill is a suburb of the town of

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

, partly in the ward of Castle Hill, in the

district, in the county of

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, England. Castle Hill United Reformed Church was completed in 1956. There was a Roman villa at Castle Hill. Under what is now housing in Tranmere Grove and Chesterfield Drive lies the remains of a Roman villa. It was excavated in 1931 and again in 1949 before residential building started. Coins were found along with a mosaic floor which is on display in Ipswich Museum. It featured on Channel 4's archaeological television programme ''

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'' in 2004. The dig helped provide more evidence to supplement that gathered in the 1949 dig by archaeologist

Basil Brown Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English archaeologist and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of th ...

. This area has for centuries been called Castle Hill but there never was a castle. Castlehill Farm stood just yards away prior to the housing scheme.

Amenities

Castle Hill has a primary and secondary school, a post office, a pub, two churches and an arcade of shops on both Fircroft Road and Garrick Way.

References

*Philip's Street Atlas Suffolk (page 135)

External links

''Time Team'' investigation of Castle Hill
Ipswich Districts {{Suffolk-geo-stub