STOWMARKET  , a

market town in the Stowmarket parliamentary division of Suffolk, England; 12 M . N.N.W. of Ipswich by the Great Eastern railway, on the river Gipping . Pop. of urban district (1901),4162 . The church of St Peter and St Mary is Decorated and Early English, with a. lofty tower and wooden spire . The ancient vicarage has associations with Milton through his tutor, Dr Young . The town has an extensive chemical manufactory, iron foundry, and factories for the manufacture of guncotton, agricultural implements and compressed leather . There is also considerable trade in corn, malt, coal, slate and timber .