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unusual facts about Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds branch line


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.


Clare Camp

Yet no Roman traces have been found on the site, in fact, very few throughout Clare, though the Via Devana probably ran through the area and there were significant Roman settlements in Wixoe and Long Melford.

Long Melford

The World War I poet Edmund Blunden lived, and is buried, in Long Melford ; the opera singer Mignon Nevada died here; and racing driver Richard Seaman lived at Kentwell Hall during part of his childhood.

The 1968 film Witch Finder General and Terry Jones's film Wind In The Willows were both partially shot in Long Melford.


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