St Edmundsbury (borough) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

St Edmundsbury is a local government district

Non-metropolitan district

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and borough

Borough

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in Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, England

England

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. It is named after its main town, Bury St Edmunds. The second town in the district is Haverhill

Haverhill, Suffolk

Haverhill is an industrial market town and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. It lies southeast of Cambridge and north of central London...

.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972

Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974....

(with the abolition of West Suffolk

West Suffolk

West Suffolk was an administrative county of England created in 1889 from part of the county of Suffolk. It survived until 1974 when it was rejoined with East Suffolk. Its county town was Bury St Edmunds....

) by the merger of the Borough of Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill Urban District, Clare Rural District

Clare Rural District

Clare Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created in 1894. On 1 April 1935 it was enlarged by the addition of the parishes of Lidgate and Ousden from the disbanded Moulton Rural District, Cavendish and Hawkedon from the Melford Rural District and...

and Thingoe Rural District

Thingoe Rural District

Thingoe Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created in 1894. On 1 April 1935 the parish of Depden was transferred to the Clare Rural District...

.

Until March 2009 its main offices were in Bury St Edmunds (Angel Hill and Western Way). Thereafter a purpose built complex, West Suffolk House housed both St Edmundsbury and Suffolk County Council staff.

In 2008 the Council submitted a proposal to the Boundary Commission which would see it as central to a new West Suffolk unitary council. Despite the considerable energies used to promote this concept the proposal was rejected and no unitary scheme for Suffolk was adopted. (For more details see also Suffolk

Suffolk

.)

In October 2011 St Edmundsbury Borough Council and Forest Heath District Council agreed to have one chief executive, a shared management team and a combined workforce, creating initial savings of more than £2million.

List of communities

Ampton
Ampton
Ampton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about five miles north of Bury St Edmunds.According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Amma's homestead. The Domesday Book records the population of Ampton in 1086 to be 23...
Bardwell
Bardwell, Suffolk
Bardwell is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England.- History and Amenities :The Domesday Book records the population of Bardwell in 1086 to be 86.The River Blackbourne passes about half a mile west of the village...
Barnardiston
Barnardiston
Barnardiston is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. The village is located about four miles north-east of Haverhill off the A143....
Barnham
Barnham, Suffolk
Barnham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. It is about south of Thetford. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is "Beorn's homestead"...
Barningham
Barningham, Suffolk
Barningham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about twelve miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds itself. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the homestead of Beorn's people. The Domesday Book records the population of Barningham...
Barrow
Barrow, Suffolk
-External links:Hidden East Anglia:Landscape Legends of Norfolk & Suffolk http://www.hiddenea.com/suffolkb.htm...
Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield is a civil parish in the St Edmundsbury borough of Suffolk, England.According to the 2001 census it had a population of 503. The parish covers Bradfield Combust and Stanningfield, about 6 miles south of Bury St Edmunds....
Bradfield St Clare
Bradfield St George
Bradfield St George
Bradfield St. George is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the wide field. The Domesday Book records the population of Bradfield St. George in 1086 to be 76 this includes Bradfield Combust and...
Brockley
Brockley, Suffolk
Brockley is a civil parish in the St Edmundsbury borough of Suffolk, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 281.It is situated approximately south of Bury St Edmunds and north of Sudbury on the B1066...
Bury St Edmunds
Cavendish
Cavendish, Suffolk
Cavendish is a village and civil parish in the Stour Valley in Suffolk, England. It is from Bury St Edmunds and from Newmarket.It is believed that Cavendish is called so because a man called Cafa used to own a pasture or 'edisc' there, and it therefore became known as Cafa's Edisc and eventually...
Chedburgh
Chedburgh
Chedburgh is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A143 around five miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 650....
Chevington
Clare
Clare, Suffolk
Clare is a small town on the north bank of the River Stour in Suffolk, England.Clare is from Bury St Edmunds and from Sudbury. It lies in the 'South and Heart of Suffolk' . As a cloth town, it is one of Suffolk's 'threads'. Clare is the current holder of Village of the Year and has won the...
Coney Weston
Coney Weston
Coney Weston is a village in Suffolk, within the St. Edmundsbury district. It is a primarily rural residential town that has dormitory town status. It is north of Ixworth and from Bury St...
Cowlinge
Cowlinge
Cowlinge, pronounced "Coolinje", is a picturesque English village located in the southwest corner of Suffolk, close to the Cambridgeshire and Essex borders.- Village name :Over the years it has been known by many names.Culinge - 11th century....
Culford
Culford
Culford is a small village about north of Bury St Edmunds in the English county of Suffolk. The villageis based around a straight road called "The Street" and there are also some smaller residential areas in Culford, like Benyon gardens, a complex of small lanes...
Denham
Denham, St Edmundsbury
Denham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around five miles west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 170. The parish also includes the hamlet of Denham End, as well as the remains of Denham Castle, a motte-and-bailey...
Denston
Denston
Denston is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around eight miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 120. The entire village is designated as a conservation area....
Depden
Depden
Depden is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A143 around five miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 200....
Euston
Euston, Suffolk
Euston is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A1088 around two miles south of Thetford, in 2005 its population was 130....
Fakenham Magna
Fakenham Magna
Fakenham Magna is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A1088 around eight miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds and four miles south-east of Thetford, in 2005 its population was 160....
Flempton
Flempton
Flempton is a village in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. It is on the A1101 road from Bury St Edmunds.The East of England Regional Assembly is based in Flempton House. The village pub is The Greyhound on The Green...
Fornham All Saints
Fornham All Saints
Fornham All Saints is a small settlement in Suffolk, England in the St_Edmundsbury area. It is north-northwest of the town of Bury St Edmunds and 500m west of Fornham_St_Genevieve....
Fornham St Genevieve
Fornham St Genevieve
Fornham St Genevieve is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around 500m north of Fornham_St_Martin and a mile and half north of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 110...
Fornham St Martin
Fornham St Martin
Fornham St Martin is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the northern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds off east and west from the A134, in 2005 its population was 1300...
Great Barton
Great Barton
Great Barton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about three miles from Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall, the meaning of the village name is barley enclosure/demesne farm or outlying grange...
Great Bradley
Great Bradley
Great Bradley is a village in Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the "wide clearing". The Domesday Book records the population of Great Bradley in 1086 to be 57...
Great Livermere
Great Livermere
Great Livermere is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 230....
Great Thurlow
Great Thurlow
Great Thurlow is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Situated around three miles north of Haverhill, in 2005 its population was 980....
Great Whelnetham
Great Whelnetham
Great Whelnetham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles south of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 820....
Great Wratting
Great Wratting
Great Wratting is a village and civil parish in England, about four miles from Haverhill, Suffolk, in the valley of the River Stour. There is a ford across the Stour in the centre of the village, where bathing and fishing are common pursuits.The river here is heavily populated by crayfish, a non...
Hargrave
Hargrave, Suffolk
Hargrave is a village in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about 7 miles south west of Bury St Edmunds. Lying at the crossroads from Ousden and Lady's Green and Chevington...
Haverhill
Haverhill, Suffolk
Haverhill is an industrial market town and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. It lies southeast of Cambridge and north of central London...
Hawkedon
Hawkedon
Hawkedon is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around seven miles south-south-west of Bury St Edmunds, the parish also contains the hamlet of Thurston End, and in 2005 had a population of 120. The majority of the village is classed as a...
Hawstead
Hengrave
Hengrave
Hengrave is a small village in Suffolk, England. It is near the town of Bury St Edmunds....
Hepworth
Hepworth, Suffolk
Hepworth is a village in the St Edmundsbury District, in the English county of Suffolk. Nearby settlements include the villages of Stanton and Barningham. For transport there is the A143 road nearby. Hepworth has a pub and a place of worship.-References:***...
Honington
Honington, Suffolk
Honington is a small village in the county of Suffolk in England, located near the county's border with Norfolk border. The village lies on the River Blackbourn, approximately 8 miles from Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles from Thetford, Norfolk....
Hopton
Hopton, Suffolk
Hopton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located just south of the Norfolk border on the B1111 road between Stanton and Garboldisham, in 2005 it had a population of 650...
Horringer
Horringer
Horringer is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A143 around two miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 890.-Demography:...
Hundon
Hundon
Hundon is a village and civil parish in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in the English county of Suffolk. It has a primary school, post office, pub and two places of worship. The village is about north west of the small town of Clare, and from the larger town of Haverhill.-External links:* * * *...
Ickworth
Ickworth
Ickworth is a small village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A143 around a mile and a half south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 30....
Ingham
Ingham, Suffolk
Ingham is a small village in Suffolk, England, located about six miles north of Bury St Edmunds on the A143 to Thetford in Norfolk. The village boasts a single church, post office and a pub, the Cadogan Arms which closed in 2006 for refurbishment....
Ixworth
Ixworth
Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in Suffolk, United Kingdom. It is some northeast of Bury St Edmunds, on the A143 road to Diss and has a population of 2,177. Retrieved 2009-09-28]-Earthworks:...
Ixworth Thorpe
Ixworth Thorpe
Ixworth Thorpe is a small village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A1088 around a mile north-west of sister village Ixworth and five miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 60....
Kedington
Kedington
Kedington is a village located between Clare and Haverhill in south-west Suffolk.Known as Kidituna in the Domesday Book , there were 280 people living there at that time....
Knettishall
Knettishall
Knettishall is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the south bank of the River Little Ouse , in 2005 it had a population of 40...
Lackford
Lackford
Lackford is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles north-west of Bury St Edmunds on the A1101, in 2005 it had a population of 270....
Lidgate
Lidgate
Lidgate is a small village and a civil parish in the St Edmundsbury District, in the English county of Suffolk. Lidgate is located on the B1063 road in between the towns of Newmarket and Clare. Lidgate has a place of worship and a castle called Lidgate Castle. The population of Lidgate is around...
Little Bradley
Little Bradley
Little Bradley is a small village in Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the wide clearing. The Domesday Book records the population of Little Bradley in 1086 to be 57...
Little Livermere
Little Livermere
Little Livermere is a village in England situated about north of Bury St Edmunds, in an area of Suffolk known as the Breckland.The village was almost entirely demolished in the 18th century when a park and mere were created in the grounds of the stately home, which was itself destroyed in the 1920s...
Little Thurlow
Little Thurlow
Little Thurlow is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around a mile north-east of sister village Great Thurlow, and four miles north of Haverhill, in 2005 its population was 230.-External links:...
Little Whelnetham
Little Whelnetham
Little Whelnetham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles south of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 180....
Little Wratting
Little Wratting
Little Wratting is a small village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the north-eastern edge of Haverhill, in 2005 its population was 160....
Market Weston
Market Weston
Market Weston is a small village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located near the Norfolk border around seven miles east-south-east of Thetford, in 2005 its population was 260. The parish also contains the Weston Fen SSSI.The village was given a market...
Nowton
Nowton
Nowton is a small village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the southern edge of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 140....
Ousden
Ousden
Ousden is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around six miles west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 260.-External links:*...
Pakenham
Pakenham, Suffolk
Pakenham is a village in the English county of Suffolk.It is to the east of Bury St. Edmunds and it administered as part of the borough of St Edmundsbury, until local government reorganisation in 1974 it was part of Thingoe Rural District...
Poslingford
Poslingford
Poslingford is a small village situated approximately 1¾ miles to the north of Clare, Suffolk, England.Poslingford lies near to a stream that feeds the River Stour , and the main part of the village follows the line of The Street , rising approximately 18m in height above sea level from south to...
Rede
Rede, Suffolk
Rede is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around five miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 160....
Risby
Rushbrooke with Rougham
Rushbrooke with Rougham
Rushbrooke with Rougham is a large civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England covering the villages of Blackthorpe, Rougham and Rushbrooke, as well as Rougham Airfield. Located directly south-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 1,140....
Sapiston
Sapiston
Sapiston is a small village in the county of Suffolk in England, UK located near the Suffolk-Norfolk border. It is in northern Suffolk lying on the river Blackbourn...
Stansfield
Stansfield
Stansfield is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located seven miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 230. The parish also contains the hamlets of Assington Green, Purton Green, Upper Street and Lower Street....
Stanton
Stanton, Suffolk
Stanton is village situated in north Suffolk, about nine miles north-east of Bury St. Edmunds, on the A143 road to Diss. Close to the village lies the former WW II airfield RAF Shepherds Grove, where American forces were based. One of the main landmarks in the village is the fine restored windmill...
Stoke-by-Clare
Stoke-by-Clare
Stoke-by-Clare is a small village in Suffolk located in the valley of the River Stour, about two miles west of Clare.In 1124 Richard de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford moved the Benedictine Priory that had been established at his castle in Clare to Stoke-by-Clare. The Priory, which was controlled by...
Stradishall
Stradishall
Stradishall is a village and civil parish in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in the English county of Suffolk.The Royal Air Force operated an airfield near Stradishall, RAF Stradishall, which was operational between 1938 and 1970. The former airfield is now the site of two category C prisons: HMP...
The Saxhams
The Saxhams
The Saxhams is a civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles west of Bury St Edmunds, the parish covers the villages of Great Saxham and Little Saxham, as well as the Saxham Industrial Estate on the A14...
Thelnetham
Thelnetham
Thelnetham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the southern bank of the River Little Ouse , six miles west of Diss, in 2005 its population was 230....
Timworth
Timworth
Timworth is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles north of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 50....
Troston
Troston
Troston is a village in the English county of Suffolk.It is around five miles north-north-east of Bury St Edmunds. Its parish church contains rare mediaeval wall paintings including dragon-slaying and the Martyrdom of St Edmund...
West Stow
West Stow
West Stow is a small parish in West Suffolk, England.The village lies north of Bury St. Edmunds, south of Mildenhall and Thetford and west of the villages of Culford and Ingham in the area known as the Breckland.This area is located near the Lark River Valley and populated from AD 420-650.it is...
Westley
Westley, Suffolk
Westley is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the western outskirts of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 180....
Whepstead
Wickhambrook
Wickhambrook
Wickhambrook is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England.Located around ten miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, halfway to Haverhill off the A143.The village was recorded in Domesday as "Wicham"....
Withersfield
Withersfield
Withersfield is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around a mile north of Haverhill, in 2005 its population was 430....
Wixoe
Wixoe
Wixoe is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the northern bank of the River Stour, two miles south-east of Haverhill, in 2005 its population was 140....
Wordwell
Wordwell
Wordwell is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about five miles North of Bury St Edmunds. The village was hit by the Black Death in 1348 and never recovered in terms of population; in 2005 it was estimated to have only 20 residents...

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