Website Design Ipswich, Suffolk

Website Design Ipswich

Unique Websites are a small professional web design company based between Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds. We offer an affordable, attractive website design service to small businesses in Suffolk.

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Each website is pleasing to look at and individually designed to meet the needs of each individual customer. Attention to detail is paid to all aspects of website design.

Ipswich: Interesting and Quirky Facts

Ipswich is a historic town in East Suffolk. It has many interesting historical and modern associations.

Ipswich: Literary Facts

  • Ipswich was where Enid Blyton trained as a Kindergarten teacher.


  • It is said that 'Little Boy Blue' and 'Humpty Dumpty' nursery rhymes were based on the life of Cardinal Wolsey from Ipswich.


  • Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who wrote 'King Solomon's Mines', was educated in Ipswich.

Ipswich: Historical Facts

  • Mrs Wallis Simpson was divorced in Ipswich before marrying Edward VIII.


  • John Gosnold III, MP for Ipswich, had to advise on the legality of Lady Jane Grey's succession.


  • Cardinal Wolsey - he who was charged with arranging the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon - was the son of an Ipswich butcher.

Ipswich: Work and Industry Facts

  • The Ipswich based company Ransomes and Rapier built the first railway in China.


  • HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship, was designed byThomas Slade, who is buried in Ipswich.


  • The Ipswich Transport Museum has the largest collection of transport items in Britain devoted to just one town (Ipswich).

Ipswich: Arts and Entertainment

  • John Simpson, the BBC foreign correspondent, spent much of his childhood in Ipswich and Dunwich.


  • When a young Cary Grant ran away to join an acrobatic troupe, his father found him in Ipswich.


  • June Brown, (Dot Cotton in 'EastEnders') was educated in Ipswich.

Ipswich: Architectural Facts

  • When it opened in 1942, the Ipswich Wet Dock was the largest area of enclosed water of its kind in England.

Ipswich: Sporting Facts

  • In 1989, Ipswich FC signed Sergei Baltacha - the first Russian player signed to play in the English football league.


  • Former England captain, Mick Mills, once played for Ipswich FC; Alf Ramsey and Bobbie Robson both once managed Ipswich FC.