East of England
Suffolk
St. Edmundsbury District

Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds, or simply Bury, is a historic market town of 40,000 people in the county of Suffolk, in . The town's medieval heritage is still visible in much of the street plan of the town centre which has not changed in 1000 years.
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  • Type: Town with 35,000 residents
  • Description: town in West Suffolk, England
  • Also known as: “Beodericsworth”, “Bury”, “Bury Saint Edmunds”, “Bury St”, “Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk”, “Bury St. Edmunds”, “St Edmund’s Bury”, and “St Edmundsbury”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Edmundsbury Cathedral and Bury St Edmunds railway station.

Church
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the cathedral for the Church of England's Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is the seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and is in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

Railway station
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serves the town of Bury St Edmunds in , . The station is on the Ipswich–Ely line and all trains calling there are operated by Greater Anglia.

Theater building
Photo: Jamesplay10, Public domain.
The , formerly the New Theatre, is a restored Regency theatre in Bury St. Edmunds, , . The building is one of eight Grade I listed theatres in the United Kingdom, and is the only working theatre operated under the auspices of the National Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fornham St Martin and Westley.

Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of in eastern England. The village is located on the northern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds off east and west from the A134; in 2005 its population was 1,300.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of in eastern England. It is located south of Junction 42 of the A14 providing primary access to adjacent market towns Bury St Edmunds and .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England in the West Suffolk district. It is north-northwest of the town of Bury St Edmunds and 500 m west of . is situated 2 miles northwest of Bury St Edmunds.

Bury St Edmunds

Latitude
52.246° or 52° 14′ 46″ north
Longitude
0.7125° or 0° 42′ 45″ east
Population
35,000
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
IATA airport code
BEQ
United Nations Location Code
GB BSE
Open location code
9F426PW7+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21409982
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654186
Wiki­data ID
Q764754
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bury St Edmunds” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باري سانت أدموندز”
  • Arabic: “بوري سانت إدموندز”
  • Armenian: “Բերի Սեյնթ Էդմունդս”
  • Armenian: “Բերի Սենթ Էդմունդս”
  • Basque: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Belarusian: “Беры-Сент-Эдмундс”
  • Belarusian: “Бэры-Сэнт-Эдмундс”
  • Bengali: “বেরি সেন্ট এডমন্ডস”
  • Catalan: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Cebuano: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Chinese: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Chinese: “卑禮聖愛德蒙”
  • Chinese: “圣埃德蒙兹伯里”
  • Chinese: “聖埃德蒙茲伯裏”
  • Chinese: “聖愛德蒙卑禮”
  • Chinese: “英國下議院”
  • Danish: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Dutch: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورى سانت ادموندز”
  • Esperanto: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • French: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • German: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • German: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Greek: “Μπέρι Σεντ Έντμουντς”
  • Gujarati: “બરી સેન્ટ એડમંડ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “בורי סט. אדמונדס”
  • Indonesian: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Irish: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Italian: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Japanese: “セント・エドマンズベリー”
  • Japanese: “バリー・セント・エドマンズ”
  • Japanese: “ベリー・セント・エドマンズ”
  • Japanese: “モイ―ズ美術館”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರ್ರಿ ಸೇಂಟ್ ಎಡ್ಮಂಡ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “베리 세인트 에드먼즈”
  • Korean: “베리세인트에드먼즈”
  • Ladin: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Latin: “Burgus Sancti Edmundi”
  • Latvian: “Berisentedmundsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Beri Sent Edmundsas”
  • Macedonian: “Бери Сент Едмондс”
  • Malay: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Norwegian: “Bury St. Edmunds”
  • Persian: “باری سنت ادموندز”
  • Persian: “بری سنت ادموندز”
  • Polish: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Portuguese: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Romanian: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Russian: “Бери-Сент-Эдмендс”
  • Russian: “Бери-Сент-Эдмундс”
  • Silesian: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Slovenian: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باری سنت ادموندز”
  • Spanish: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Swedish: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Tamil: “பூரி ஸ்ட இடமுன்ட்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “, బరీ సెయింట్ ఎడ్ముండ్స్”
  • Turkish: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Ukrainian: “Бері-Сент-Едмендс”
  • Urdu: “بری سینٹ ایڈمونز”
  • Urdu: “بری سینٹ یدموندس”
  • Volapük: “Bury St Edmunds”
  • Welsh: “Bury St Edmunds”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bury St Edmunds”. Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.