The Ipswich Waterfront Walk is a new 5.5-mile (9km) route through open green spaces, historic landscapes, and the town’s vibrant urban waterfront.
The Ipswich Waterfront Walk offers an extension to the King Charles III England Coast Path beyond Orwell Bridge into Ipswich.
The creation of the new walk was led by Suffolk County Council’s Discover Suffolk team, supported by Defra access funding, which was facilitated by the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape.
Highlights along the signposted route include
- Orwell Bridge – Designed by the same designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it is used today by up to 60,000 vehicles a day
- Pipers Vale Local Nature Reserve – home to over 100 birds species in diverse habitats including heath, reedbeds, and scrub
- Ipswich Waterfront – 17th century, Anglo-Saxon Gipeswic was centred around today’s Waterfront. The suffix ‘wic’ means landing-place and North Sea trade made this one of the largest post-Roman townships in northern Europe.
- The Orwell Estuary – internationally important for wading birds with habitats forming wildlife corridors, a key part of the Suffolk & Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape
- Suffolk Food Hall – showcasing fantastic foods produced in Suffolk and East Anglia
Download the free Discover Suffolk app
Follow the Ipswich Waterfront Walk, and 100s of other walks, on the free Discover Suffolk app. The app directs you along the trail, pinpointing your exact location showing how far you’ve walked and how far you have left! Find out more at https://www.discoversuffolk.org.uk/.