Bury St Edmunds
| Bury St Edmunds | |
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Clockwise from top: Bury aerial view, Abbeygate Street, St Mary's Church, Abbeygate and Cathedral | |
Bury St Edmunds Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 41,700 (Parish, 2022)[1] 41,280 (Built up area, 2021)[2] |
| OS grid reference | TL855645 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BURY ST. EDMUNDS |
| Postcode district | IP32, IP33 |
| Dialling code | 01284 |
| Police | Suffolk |
| Fire | Suffolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Bury St Edmunds (/ˈbɛri sənt ˈɛdməndz/), 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.[3] 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,[4] was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080.[5][6] It is known for brewing and malting (Greene King brewery)[7] 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.
- ^ "2022 Census Parish Population Estimate". ONS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 August 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ^ "Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021". Census 2021. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ OS Explorer map 211: Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. ISBN 978 0319240519
- ^ "Magna Carta 800 – Bury St Edmunds". magnacarta800.org.uk. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ^ "Our Bury St. Edmunds". www.ourburystedmunds.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ^ "St Edmundsbury Local History - St Edmundsbury from 1066 to 1216". www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Greene King – Beers & breweries – Our breweries – Greene King Brewery". www.greeneking.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2015.