Bury St Edmunds (gbr)

Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds ranks 3,250th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ottawa, Illinois, Argenteuil, and Nicomedia. The most famous people from Bury St Edmunds are Bob Hoskins, Ouida, and Richard de Bury. The most famous people who died in Bury St Edmunds are Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, and Angus Wilson. Bury St Edmunds has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Bury St Edmunds is located in United Kingdom.

Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is best known for Bury St Edmunds Abbey and St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England, with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The town, originally called Beodericsworth, was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080. It is known for brewing and malting and for a British Sugar processing factory, where Silver Spoon sugar is produced. The town is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and tourism is a major part of the economy. The built up area had a population of 41,280 at the 2021 census. Read more on Wikipedia