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Tannery Drive, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2SD

Built 1971-2.

One way sign and graffiti in Maynewater Lane, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Low lying ground near the town centre south of the River Linnet.

Footpath by the end of Maynewater Lane.

A meadow full of buttercups in May.

Numbers 121 and 122 Southgate Street are a pair of early 19th century houses, possibly with an earlier core. Built in red brick which glows in the early morning sun. There is a rear wing in brick and flint. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272157 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.