Bury St Edmunds
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Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is best known fo
Bury St Edmunds Abbey
St Edmundsbury Cathedral geograph.org.uk 5661876
Bury St Edmunds, Abbeygate Street geograph.org.uk 4329023
Abbey Gate, Bury St Edmunds geograph.org.uk 4287691
Edmund the Martyr
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Edmund the Martyr was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.
Bury St Edmunds
…Edmundi (also spelled Aedmundi). In the Anglo-Saxon period the town was called Bedricesweord or Bedericesworth. The second section of the name refers to Edmund, King of the East Angles, called Edmund the Martyr, who was killed by the Vikings in the year 869. He became venerated as a saint and a martyr, and his…
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Execution of Edmund the Martyr
A St Edmund memorial penny (British Museum)
Arundel Castle in West Sussex