FELIXSTOWE  , a seaside resort of

Suffolk, England; fronting both to the North Sea and to the estuary of the Orwell, where there are piers . Pop. of urban district of Felixstowe and Walton (19or), 5815 . It is 85 m . N.E. by E. from London by a branch line from Ipswich of the Great Eastern railway; and is in the Woodbridge parliamentary division of the county . It has good golf links, and is much frequented by visitors for its bracing climate and sea-bathing . There is a small dock, and phosphate of lime is extensively dug in the neighbourhood and exported for use as manure . The neighbouring village of Walton, a short distance inland, receives many visitors . The vicinity has yielded numerous Roman remains, and there was a Roman fort in the neighbourhood (now destroyed by the sea), forming part of the coast defence of the Litus Saxonicum in the 4th century .