Bury St Edmunds one of happiest places in England The location has also been highly ranked in many Sunday Times reports into the best places to live, so there is more than enough evidence to suggest people love local life, and there is always high demand for property.
The Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide has named Bury St Edmunds as the Best Place to Live in the East of England. The Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide looks at factors including employment, schools, broadband speed, culture, community spirit and local shops.
With 1,000 years of history and heritage to explore in Bury St Edmunds town centre it is a history-lovers paradise. But even if history & heritage is not your thing, the picturesque Georgian squares and wonderful medieval architecture are a fantastic backdrop to a break and great for photographs and instagram likes!
Flood alert area: Areas of Bury St Edmunds at risk of groundwater flooding, including Eastgate Street, Barn Lane, Blomfield Street and parts of Vinefields.
Why are there so many Americans in Bury St Edmunds?
Bury St Edmunds has a pivotal role in the history of the Magna Carta, a charter of liberties on which the American Constitution is based, and American families can often be found in the town to trace their ancestry back to the Barons who made it all happen.
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Where not to live in Bury St Edmunds?
The St Olaves Ward in Bury St Edmunds, which includes the Howard Estate and Northern Way industrial estate, recorded a crime rate of 120.3 crimes per 1,000 people.
- Global superstar Ed Sheeran, is one of the county's best known exports and still lives here. - Comedian and actor Griff Rhys Jones keeps a number of alpacas at his Suffolk home. - Author Anthony Horowitz has a home in Orford.
Hull has been named as the flood capital of the UK for the third year running, according to research from MoneySuperMarket, with an astonishing 5.9% of homes in the city having previously flooded – way above the national average of 0.7%.
Geography. Bury is located in the middle of an undulating area of East Anglia known as the East Anglian Heights, with land to the east and west of the town rising to above 100 metres (330 ft), though parts of the town itself are as low as 30 m (100 ft) above sea level where the Rivers Lark and Linnet pass through it.
The historic market town is home to England's first patron saint, St Edmund, and it is an idyllic place to live. You'll find a bustling market here, as well as beautiful buildings, including the St Edmundsbury Cathedral and the sprawling Abbey Gardens.
Where is the best place to live in Bury St Edmunds?
Favoured streets and roads to live on are in the middle of town and around the Hospital on the south side. Examples of popular villages are the 'Fornham's, Great Barton, Ixworth and Woolpit due to their proximity to town, the A14 and good schools.
There is the sickly-sweet smell of the sugar factory as it processes beet in to white gold and then there is the full rich yeasty smell of the Greene King brewery as it turns barley, hops and yeast into the nectar of the gods. Guess which smell I prefer? Bury St Edmund can be fairly described as a 'smelly' town.
A visit to Bury St Edmunds would not be complete without a stroll through the Abbey Gardens. Developed on the site of the Abbey of St Edmund', which was one of the largest and most important Benedictine abbeys in medieval England.
Its name derives from the martyred King Edmund, who was killed by the Danes and who came to be venerated as a saint soon afterwards. After his remains were enshrined at Bury St Edmunds Abbey, it became one of the most famous and wealthy pilgrimage destinations in England.
In the affluent Moreton Hall area of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, average life expectancy is 93.4 years – the highest in the country. But in the deprived Middlehaven district in Middlesbrough, it's 67.8 – the lowest.
While some will recoil at the thought of even a remote possibility of flooding, others will see the opportunity of living close to water as a risk well worth taking. If you are willing to do your homework and are fully aware of the risks involved, there's no reason not to buy a home built on a floodplain.
Where in the UK is most at risk of climate change?
Lincolnshire came first and Greater London second within the UK, with both places also making the top 10 percent of areas globally that are most at risk of property damage by extreme heat, forest fires, flooding and rising sea levels.
Projections by Climate Central predict that Dungeness in Kent, Burnham in Devon, Southport in Merseyside and much of Lincolnshire could fall under water. Since 1900 British sea levels have risen by 15cm and the Met Office predicts that by 2100 the sea could have risen by more than a metre, reports The Daily Express.
These include Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Osaka, Mumbai, Guangzhou, Shenzen and Miami. All except Shenzen have also been identified as having high (Top 20) exposure to coastal flood risk in the 2070s. To an extent, this is to be expected, given the role of high winds in driving extreme sea levels.
United Kingdom. The North Sea flood of 1953 was the worst flood of the 20th century in England and Scotland. Over 1,600 km (990 mi) of coastline was damaged, and sea walls were breached in 1,200 places, inundating 160,000 acres (65,000 ha; 250 sq mi).
Bury St Edmunds Market is a fantastic places to sample the county's marvellous local produce. Here, you'll find bread, pastries, pies, cheeses, free-range eggs, fresh fish, meats and fruit and vegetables, all of which have been made, grown or reared locally to the highest of standards.
Kezz Stone is a British born singer/songwriter hailing from London's Chelsea district. Born in Bury St Edmunds in 1978 he is the younger of two boys to folk singer Jed Stone & mother Sally Potirakis.
With its Tudor houses, crooked, half-timbered cottages, it's easy to understand why the streets of Lavenham, just 20 minutes from Bury St Edmunds, were used as Harry Potter's birthplace on the big screen!
