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Gainsborough, Ipswich — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Gainsborough is an area of Ipswich in Suffolk, named after the painter Thomas Gainsborough, who visited the banks of the Orwell here.
About Gainsborough
Where to stay in Gainsborough
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Ipswich holds the beds. Gainsborough is residential ground, and a room here means a quiet address off Landseer Road with All Hallows Church and the walk down to the Orwell as the near landmarks rather than any strip of bars. If you want the museums, the restaurants and the station, base yourself in central Ipswich and treat Gainsborough as the residential edge it is.
Leighton Road marks the other side.
About Gainsborough
What are the main landmarks in Gainsborough?
Everything Gainsborough lists is a church. Leighton Road Evangelical Church and Landseer Road Methodist Church both take their names from the streets they stand on, which is the plainest guide anyone has to how this part of Ipswich is laid out. All Hallows Church completes the list.
For a visitor the churches double as waypoints, and Leighton Road and Landseer Road name themselves on any map of Gainsborough.
What is the history of Gainsborough?
The name comes from a painter. Thomas Gainsborough of Sudbury lived in Ipswich for several years, and he was noted for visiting the banks of the Orwell in this part of the town. Suffolk holds the wider record, and Ipswich the local one.
All Hallows Church, Leighton Road Evangelical Church and Landseer Road Methodist Church are the buildings the record names inside Gainsborough, and the written account of the area itself centres on the painter's connection.
Where is Gainsborough?
Gainsborough sits inside Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, England, on the side of the town where the banks of the Orwell drew the painter.
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Updated September 2026