Duke Street is a street in

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 ...

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, England, which played an important part in the industrial development of Ipswich. Originally, it was quite short, however, as its modern southern portion was known as St John's Street.

Coprolite Street Coprolite Street is a street in Ipswich, Suffolk in the Waterfront area. It runs from Duke Street to Neptune Marina, the former Orwell Quay. It was named after the factory which processed coprolite, or fossilised faeces, near Ipswich Docks Th ...

connects it the quay at Neptune Marina, part of

Ipswich Waterfront The Ipswich Waterfront is a cultural and historically significant area surrounding the marina in the town of Ipswich, Suffolk. The modern dock was constructed in 1842 and the area was a functioning dock up until the 1970s. At the time of comple ...

History

Duke Street gave access to one of the principal ship building areas of Ipswich in St Clements Parish. Duke street is shown in Joseph Pennington's map of 1778. This map shows a number of shipyards on the eastern bank of the Orwell between Duke Street and the river. By the mid nineteenth century the entrance to both the

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and

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sites of

Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harv ...

were on Duke Street, as well as their garage which housed the

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Notable buildings

File:The Steam Packet, Ipswich.jpg, 2 and 4, Duke Street is a

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listed building. File:Site of Ransomes Orwell Works, Duke Street, Ipswich.jpg, Site of Ransomes' Orwell Works, in 2020 a carpark

References

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