Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds is a Town in the county of Suffolk.
There are great places to visit near Bury St Edmunds including some great fens, nature reserves, historic buildings, villages and historic monuments.
There are a several good fens in the area around Bury St Edmunds like Lopham Fen.
The area around Bury St Edmunds's best nature reserves can be found at Lopham Fen.
Don't miss Ickworth's historic buildings if visiting the area around Bury St Edmunds.
The area around Bury St Edmunds's best villages can be found at Elveden.
Places near Bury St Edmunds feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Elveden Monument.
Bury St Edmunds History
There are some historic monuments around Bury St Edmunds:
Places to see near Bury St Edmunds
History of Bury St Edmunds
On 18 March 1190, two days after the more well-known massacre of Jews at Clifford Tower in York, the people of Bury St Edmunds massacred 57 Jews. Later that year, Abbot Samson successfully petitioned King Richard I for permission to evict the town’s remaining Jewish inhabitants “on the grounds that everything in the town… belonged by right to St Edmund: therefore, either the Jews should be St Edmunds men or they should be banished from the town.” This expulsion predates the Edict of Expulsion by 100 years. In 1198, a fire burned the shrine of St Edmund, leading to the inspection of his corpse by Abbot Samson and the translation of St Edmund’s body to a new location in the abbey.
