Land Use in Ipswich
| The Growth of Ipswich | |
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The original function of Ipswich, as the lowest bridging point on the River Gipping/Orwell, shows up well from the map. |
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Growth of Ipswich was relatively late, left to Victorian times and the growth of industry and communications. |
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Late Victorian additions, and those just happening after the First World War, greatly increased the size of Ipswich. |
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The area of the inter-war housing almost doubles the area of the town. |
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The outer-urban estates complete the picture of growth .. almost. The next plot should see further expansion through out-of-town commercial centres and new, private, estates pushing up against, in the south, the line of the new bypass. |
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Land Use in Ipswich |
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The challenge of this fine map is to fit a suitable urban model to its land-use features. |
| These are a series of maps lifted from a local site that I do not seem to be able to access today, hence adding them to this site. If they are yours, do let me know! |