Coprolite Street is a street in

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include L ...

in the

Waterfront area The waterfront area of a city or town is its dockland district, or the area alongside a body of water. See also *Belgrade Waterfront * Ipswich Waterfront *Valletta Waterfront *Sabarmati Riverfront Sabarmati Riverfront is a waterfront bein ...

. It runs from Duke Street to Neptune Marina, the former Orwell Quay. It was named after the factory which processed

coprolite A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces. Coprolites are classified as trace fossils as opposed to body fossils, as they give evidence for the animal's behaviour (in this case, diet) rather than morphology. The name is de ...

, or fossilised faeces, near

Ipswich Docks The Ipswich Docks, Ipswich wet dock and the wet dock,) are a series docks in Port of Ipswich located at a bend of the River Orwell which has been used for trade since at least the 8th Century. A wet dock was constructed in 1842 which was 'the b ...

. This factory was established by Edward Packard on the site of a former mill in 1849. It is believed by local people to be the only Coprolite Street in the country or even the world, and attracts geologists in particular who like to have their photograph taken by the street sign.

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