Castle Hill is a suburb of the town of

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. 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, ...

, partly in the ward of Castle Hill, in the

district, in the county of

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. It is the site of the

Castle Hill Roman villa The Castle Hill Roman villa has been described as "the largest and most sophisticated villa complex known in Suffolk". Under what is now housing in Tranmere Grove and Chesterfield Drive in the old village of Whitton (now a suburb of Ipswich) lies ...

. 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. Castle Hill United Reformed Church was completed in 1956.

References

*Philip's Street Atlas Suffolk (page 135) Ipswich Districts {{Suffolk-geo-stub