About Norwich & Norfolk
Scenic & Historic Town of Woodbridge

Situated on the river Deben, Woodbridge is everything an old market town should be. Woodbridge was established many hundreds of years ago as a major agricultural centre and an inland port. Over the years the town has become a well known and much loved centre for both small industries and a growing population.

Norwich has attracted chief employers to this region including Norwich Union, Colmans Foods, Virgin Financial Services, Lotus Engineering, Aventis Ago Chemicals, HM Stationery Office and Bernard Matthews Foods. There is an excellent range of schools and opportunities for further education and of course, Norwich is the home of the University of East Anglia.

The town benefits from a plethora of antique shops and specialist shops offering a wide range of goods from high fashion to everyday requirements.

Woodbridge has become a very popular holiday area and retirement area with high quality housing within the town and the surrounding villages which include some of the finest period houses in the area. Some first class modern housing developments have attracted professional and retired people alike.

Situated to the North of Ipswich, the town benefits from excellent communication links by both rail and road. The A12 by-passes the town but provides easy access to Ipswich and the South and Lowestoft and Norwich to the North.

Rail links are excellent with regular services from Woodbridge to Ipswich and onwards to London’s Liverpool Street station which is just over an hour away and to the North and Midlands.

Educationally the town is supplied with excellent schools which cater for all requirements from fee paying schools such as The Abbey, Woodbridge School and Orwell Park to the well known Farlingaye High School.

Woodbridge is fortunate to have remarkable local facilities ranging from several golf courses, Health Clubs, superb sailing on the Deben, a cinema, theatre and museums.

The Heritage Coast, offering opportunities for bird watching and walking is on the doorstep with Aldeburgh Festival and Regatta during the summer months just a short drive away.

Woodbridge is an old market town situated on the River Deben and offers easy access to all of East Anglia via excellent road links to the South, Midlands and Norfolk. London’s third Airport, Stanstead is only 45 minutes drive with the seaports of Felixstowe and Harwich a short drive giving access to Europe and beyond.

Woodbridge and the surrounding area offers a variety of living accommodation from Victorian townhouses and farmhouses to modern housing estates with facilities to match.

It boasts several golf clubs, football and rugby clubs, health spa, sailing, swimming, riverside walks, museums, cinema/theatre and historic churches.

The town centre is well stocked with olde worlde pubs providing fine foods and ales, top class hotels, a fine selection of restaurants. Ipswich, only a 15 drive away offers a vibrant nightlife. The Thoroughfare offers a wide range of specialist shops and supermarkets.

A selection of dentists, doctors’ surgeries and health centres are to be found within the town together with community centre which hosts a monthly farmer’s market. A small but high class market is held each Thursday in the fine old market square.

There are two extremely well known private schools, a grammar school, excellent comprehensive school and several primary schools in the town.
Map of East Anglia Wood Bridge