Willis Faber building
5 Museum Street

Ipswich

5 Museum Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 1HQ

 

Tel: 01473 214481

Fax: 01473 231388

 

DX: 3227 Ipswich

 

E-mail: ipswich@ealaw.co.uk

 

A port and trading centre since Roman and Anglo Saxon times, Ipswich, now with a population of around 128,000, is famous as the birthplace of Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor.  In 1936 the American newspaper headline "King's Moll Reno'd in Wolsey's Home Town" announced the divorce at the town's assizes of Wallis Simpson, then living near Woodbridge; thus clearing the way for her marriage - but only after his abdication - to King Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor).  In recent years the town acquired international notoriety as a result of the Ipswich Prostitute Murders, the perpetrator later being tried and convicted at the local Crown Court.  Today Ipswich also has a County Court (with care hearing centre) and magistrates and family proceedings courts.  The regional office of Employment Tribunals is in Bury St Edmunds, to the west.

 

Directions

Click here for a map of our Ipswich premises

 

By rail

Chambers is a brisk 10 minute walk from Ipswich railway station.  Cross at the lights by the station entrance and over the bridge towards the town centre (Princes Street).   At the major roundabout take the pedestrian underpass, following signs for Princes Street and Civic Drive (East).  Proceed along the left side of Princes Street and left towards Museum Street, crossing Elm Street.  Proceed up Museum Street, past a kink in the road by Arcade Street (on the right).  5 Museum Street is on the right, just by the Park and Ride bus stop.

 

By road

Vehicular access to Princes Street is restricted, so unless you are a blue badge holder do not attempt to drive to chambers. However, there is space for disabled parking immediately in front of the building. The nearest car parks are the Spiral car park on Civic Drive, and at Portman Road.  To avoid the town centre altogether try the Park and Ride car parks just off the A14 - at the Ipswich North junction to the north and near Tesco, by the A12/A14 junction to the south.  Both routes include Museum Street, with buses stopping right outside the premises.