Someone with an interest in the historic wall lettering on Ipswich buildings has got a website dedicated to photographing this old lettering around the town. Apparently (who knew?!), Ipswich is "the earliest continuous settlement in England, dating back to around AD 600, with Ipswich Ware [pottery] being produced from around AD 670". It just so happens that 239 Cavendish St., the home of some of our late 19th and early 20th century Meadows relatives made it to this site as it has an Ipswich Ware wall plate on the facade.
This is the website link: http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/
Having looked it up now, the "earliest continuous settlement in England" seems to mean not including the Romans, Vikings, Celts, etc. - in other words, continuously settled by the 'English' Anglo-Saxons. There are older settlements than Ipswich around the country, as we all know.
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| 239 Cavendish St. on the right |
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| Pottery Wall Tile at 239 Cavendish. |
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