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The Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation, opened 1793, mostly using the River Gipping. Traffic to Stowmarket stopped around 1910, but continued to Bramford until 1929 - note barges by railway bridge. The navigation was abandoned in 1932.
(Information from "Lost Canals and Waterways of Britain", by Ronald Russell, published by David and Charles.)
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