Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, along the river Deben, with a population of about 9,000. It is a centre for boat-building, rope-making and sail-making and has been since the Middle Ages. Edward III and Sir Francis Drake had fighting ships built in Woodbridge. The town has a restored tidemill, one of only 4 in the UK, and one of the earliest - a mill was first recorded on this site in 1170, operated by the Augustinian Canons. In 1536, it passed to King Henry VIII. In 1564, Queen Elizabeth I granted the mill to Thomas Seckford. Sutton Hoo, a group of low grassy mounds famous for turning up Anglo-Saxon treasure of one of the earliest English kings, Redwald, overlooks Woodbridge from the Eastern Bank of the Deben. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.