Ipswich is a port town in Suffolk, England.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers. (Volume 2): ""I’ve got no mother or father; mother has been dead for two years, and father’s been gone more than that—more nigh five years—he died at Ipswich, in Suffolk. He was a perfumer by trade, and used to make hair-dye, and scent, and pomatum, and all kinds of scents."