Woodbridge, market town, par., and river port with ry. sta Suffolk, on river Doben, 8 miles NE. of Ipswich and 79 miles NE. of London, 1101 ac. and 108 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 4544; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper Market-day, Thursday. Woodbridge was the seat of an Augustinian friary of the 12th century. It is a sub-port of Ipswich, and has a considerable coasting trade, exporting corn, malt, and bricks, and importing coal and timber. Brickmaking, rope-making, malting, and shipbuilding are carried on.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))