Stowmarket

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Stowmarket

Coordinates52.19°, 1.00°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Stowmarket is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, on the A14 trunk road between Bury St Edmunds to the west and Ipswich to the southeast. The town lies on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) between Diss and Needham Market, and lies on the River Gipping, which is joined by its tributary, the River Rat, to the south of the town.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Robert Brooke-Popham

senior commander in the Royal Air Force, previously served in the Royal Flying Corps

Kerry Ellis

British stage actress and singer

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Arthur William Sidney Herrington

American engineer (1891–1970); collected art with his wife Nell Ray Clarke Herrington (1891-1966)

William Frederick King

Canadian astronomer (1854-1916)

Henry of Almain

English noble

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John Bois

English priest

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John Budd Phear

British judge and anthropologist (1825–1905)

John Chapman

British roman catholic priest and abbot of Downside Abbey (1865–1933)

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John Taylor

English landscape gardener, and real estate agent on the French Riviera (1834-1922)

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Arthur Jackson

English Presbyterian clergyman

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Dave Bickers

Professional motorcycle racer

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Edward Alston

President of the College of Physicians; (1595-1669)

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Gavin Johnson

English footballer (born 1970)

George Kitchin

first Chancellor of the University of Durham; Dean of Durham; British Anglican priest and theologian

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George Edward Read

New Zealand politician and mariner (1814/1815-1878)

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland

English general

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Needham Market
  3.4 mi away
• Framlingham
  14.8 mi away
• Manningtree
  17 mi away · pop. 900
• Saxmundham
  21 mi away
• Dovercourt
  21.2 mi away
• Halstead
  22.7 mi away
• Orford
  23.7 mi away
• Coggeshall
  25.3 mi away
• Aldeburgh
  25.7 mi away
• Lakenheath
  25.7 mi away
• Walton-on-the-Naze
  26.2 mi away
• Frinton-on-Sea
  26.9 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Stowmarket

[Report 1949]

Stowmarket (England). Urban District Council · 1949

Stowmarket

Robert Malster · 2000

Bury St.Edmunds, Sudbury and Stowmarket

Ordnance Survey · 1996

Stowmarket, Suffolk

1970

Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket

Ordnance Survey · 1999

Stowmarket, Suffolk; official guide

1974

Bury St Edmunds Sudbury & Stowmarket

Ordnance Survey · 2001

Factual survey and outline plan for the urban district of Stowmarket

Oxenbury · 1954

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers