Fore Street, Ipswich


Fore Street, Ipswich has been a prominent street in Ipswich, Suffolk since the fifteenth century.

History

In the fifteenth century Fore street was at the centre of the wool trade handling the exports from the wool towns of Hadleigh, Kersey and Lavenham. There were a number of extensive complexes of buildings between the street and the quay. However that of Isaac Lord is the only surviving complete example of such architecture.

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