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The Aviary, Shirehall Way, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2ED

No Man's Meadows local nature reserve is where there was once the abbey fishponds which were created by diverting the course of the River Linnet. See Image Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

At this section of the cycle route, close to the abbey ruins, stands these remains of an entrance that lead into the abbey precinct.

An information board about the No Man's Meadows local nature reserve. See Image Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

These two narrow rivers join up behind the Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds. The larger Lark, in the foreground, later links up the River Great Ouse which in turn empties into The Wash at King's Lynn. The Lark used to be navigable as far as the centre of Bury St Edmunds.

The Registry Office displays quite a mixture of architectural styles, including a 1960s raised walkway to the adjoining office block. This was formerly the Suffolk County Council premises, briefly the library while the real one was refurbished, and now lays empty looking for a new tenant.

Glimpsed from alongside the Old Shire Hall is St Margarets House. Built, in red brick with lighter rubbed brick dressings, in the early 18th century and altered and extended in the early 20th century. The house incorporporates part of the Abbey's precinct wall. Some 17th and 18th century internal features remain. The house was used as offices of West Suffolk County Council from 1932 until it was sold and re-converted to private residential accommodation circa 2013. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1375562 Honey Hill, with its wealth of history used to finish at Sparhawk Street from thereon it was known as Schoolhall Street when the Abbey’s song school was here. The Abbey’s St Margarets Gate was taken down to allow free passage into The Great Churchyard. Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

The Police Station of Suffolk Constabulary in Raingate Street.

The willow plantation to the left of the river is known as The Crankles. It was used to produce wood for cricket bat manufacture. In medieval times the area was probably fishponds for Bury Abbey.

The old shire hall Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk now a small part of the shire hall complex this building is now houses magistrates courts.