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Bury St Edmunds has been in the unified county of Suffolk since April 1974. [99] Previously the town had been part of the county of West Suffolk of which Bury St Edmunds was the county town. The county of West Suffolk had been established in 1889. [102] Since 2009, Suffolk County Council has its Bury St Edmunds offices at West Suffolk House. [103]
From April 2010 the East of England Regional Strategy Board of the East of England Local Government Association was responsible, in cooperation with the East of England Development Agency, for strategic planning in the region.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 (along with the abolition of the county of West Suffolk) by the merger of the Borough of Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill Urban District, Clare Rural District and Thingoe Rural District. Until March 2009, its main offices were in Bury St Edmunds (Angel Hill and Western Way).
St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds, the district's largest town. Market Square in Haverhill , the district's second largest town. Newmarket is the district's third largest town and is known as a major centre of horse racing.
Cavenham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, 10 kilometres (6 mi) northwest of Bury St Edmunds. It is in the local government district of West Suffolk, and the electoral ward of Manor. [1] At the 2021 UK census, Cavenham Parish had a population of 141. [2] In the 1870s it had a population of 229. [3]
The Market Cross, also known as Bury St Edmunds Town Hall, is a municipal building in Cornhill in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The building, which is currently used as a community space, is a Grade I listed building .
The Athenaeum is a Grade I listed building [1] and a major venue in Bury St Edmunds, England. Even before substantial rebuilding the site was used as an Assembly Rooms for the town in the eighteenth century. The building was rebuilt in 1789 and further developed in 1804 under a subscription scheme established by its new owner, James Oakes. [2]
The complex lies within the original precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey and was originally the site of a monastic grammar school. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The oldest part of the complex, the old court building, dates back to 1750: the two-storey building was remodeled in the early 19th century and was further restructured to the designs of William McIntosh ...