The Gainsborough Estate is an urban priority area council housing estate on the South East side of Ipswich

Ipswich

Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...

 in the English county of Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

. Ipswich Borough Council also sell on the estate for as little as £55,000 for a 2 bedroom semi with front and back garden.

Nacton, Suffolk, near the Gainsborough estate is where the 19th Century Suffolk heroine Margaret Catchpole

Margaret Catchpole

Margaret Catchpole , a British adventuress, chronicler and criminal, born in Suffolk she worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse and later escaping from Ipswich Gaol. Following her capture she was transported to Australia...

was born.