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2 unusual facts about Bury St Edmunds


Lackford Hundred

The name Lackford derives from the parish of the same name, Lackford just north-west of Bury St Edmunds, even though that village is actually in Thingoe Hundred.

The Warbanks

A late Bronze Age sword (now in the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds) was found on the site of the Warbanks and has been dated as 800-600BC and could give a clue to the age of the banks.


Cripplegate

Additionally the body of St. Edmund the Martyr was said to have been carried through it in 1010 on its way from Bury St Edmunds to St. Gregory's church to save it from the Danes and Lydgate, a monk of Bury, claimed that the body cured many lame peasants as it passed through the gate.

Eric Gordon England

In 1945, Gordon England contested the Bury St Edmunds seat in the General Election, standing for the socialist Common Wealth party but failed to get elected.

Greene baronets

The first Baronet was the son of Edward Greene, Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, and the grandson of Benjamin Greene, who established the Greene King Brewery in Bury St Edmunds in 1799.

John Stonor

Other work included special inquiries into the disorders in 1327 at Bury St Edmunds and Abingdon Abbey and in 1335 at Oxford, official misconduct in 1323 and 1331–1334 and trying rebels in 1323, 1327, and 1331.

John Wrawe

On 12 June, Wrawe attacked Sir Richard Lyons' property at Overhall, advancing on to the towns of Cavendish and Bury St Edmunds in west Suffolk the next day, gathering further support as they went.

Leeds South by-election, 1908

At a meeting on 27 January 1908, the local Conservative organisation in Leeds South adopted R J Neville, the Recorder of Bury St Edmunds as their candidate.

Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds branch line

The Long Melford–Bury St Edmunds branch line was a railway between Long Melford on the Stour Valley Railway and Bury St Edmunds on the Ipswich to Ely Line.

Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet

He was the second son of Edward Greene (later Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet) of Nether Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and Anne Elizabeth née Royds of Haughton, Staffordshire.

Welwyn

In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.


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Kennett railway station

The station buildings were typical of the line between Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket, with similar buildings at Saxham and Risby railway station and Higham railway station (Suffolk), the latter which still remains, consisting of a two-story station master's house adjoining a small booking hall.

Pillar of salt

The Pillar of Salt road sign near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, thought to be the first internally illuminated road sign in the country

William Spring

Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet (1613–1654), English MP for Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk in 1654