WOODBRIDGE, (Suffolk) near 11 m. from the ocean and Orford, 4 from Wickham-Market, 15 from Aldborough, 7 from Ipswich, in
the road to Yarmouth, 62 cm. 75 mm. from London. 'Tis about half a m. in length and breadth. It drives a good trade by its
navigable r. Deben, to London, Newcastle, Holland, &c. with butter, cheese, salt, plank, &c. and their pinks and hoys go
to and from London every week. It had formerly a mon. on the S. side of the Ch. and a trade in sack-cloth, as it has now
in refining salt. It has a fine Ch. and steeple, several good inns, and a handsome shire-hall in the Mt.-place, where the
quarter-sessions are held for the liberty of St. Ethelred and Audry, and under it is the corn-cross. The Mt. which is on
W. is well furnished with most necessaries, particularly hemp and cordage, and its Fairs are March 25, May 3, and Sept.
21. It has 4 or 5 docks for building ships, with commodious keys and warehouses; and here is a good grammar school and an
almsh. erected in 1587, by Thomas Seckford, master of the requests, and well endowed, for 13 men and 3 women. The manor is
said to be in the family of Ld. Willoughby of Eresby; but the site of the mon. a good old seat, the estate of Thomas
Carthew of Benacre.