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Archers Place, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2FA

Cutting through from Southgate Street towards the water meadows.

This high wall enclosing the garden to number 84 Southgate Street is early 18th century and is listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272155 Sparhawk Street runs from Honey Hill via the open space of St Mary’s Square to Southgate Street which leads to Southgate Green, the site of the town’s Southgate and where St Petronella’s Hospital was located, established in the 12th century for the treatment of female lepers. The area is rich in history and has a great variety of buildings. 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 Macebearer pub Home Farm Lane Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. For view of the pub sign see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1312474

This house at number 83 Southgate Street was formerly The Plough public house which opened before 1759 and closed in 1917. The oldest part, 15th century, is the rear range, the service wing to an open hall. The hall was replaced in the 16th century by the south (left) part of the front range which was jettied to the street. The north (right) part of the front range is a late 17th or early 18th century addition. The building was refronted in the early 19th century and the single storey extension was added at the same time. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272146 Sparhawk Street runs from Honey Hill via the open space of St Mary’s Square to Southgate Street which leads to Southgate Green, the site of the town’s Southgate and where St Petronella’s Hospital was located, established in the 12th century for the treatment of female lepers. The area is rich in history and has a great variety of buildings. 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.