St Mary at Stoke, IpswichoioioooUrban rivers carve allegiances. The Gipping becomes tidal as it enters the Borough of Ipswich, splits around an island, and remerges as the Orwell. 1500 years ago, along this fertile estuary, Anglo-Saxon trading and manufacturing settlements merged to http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stmaryatstoke.htm