Bury St Edmunds
Posted by: adminProperty prices in Bury St Edmunds are currently averaging £170k.
Total properties sold in November 2009 – 20
Average Price – £166,431
Flats in Bury St Edmunds – 3
Average Price – £143,333
Detached Houses in Bury St Edmunds – 6
Average Price – £201,231
Semi-detached Houses in Bury St Edmunds – 3
Average Price – £153,500
Terraced Houses in Bury St Edmunds – 8
Average Price – £153,843
Bury St Edmunds is a old market town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the county town of West Suffolk. It is the main town in the borough of St Edmundsbury and known for the ruined abbey near the town centre.
The town is famous for brewing & malting (with the large Greene King brewery) and for a British Sugar processing factory.
Near the gardens stands Britain’s oldest internally lit street sign, the pillar of salt. When built, it needed license because it did not conform to regulations. Bury St Edmunds is destination of the A1101, Great Britain’s deepest road.
There is a network of tunnels which are evidence of chalk-workings, though there is no evidence of an extensive tunnels under the town centre. Some buildings have inter-communicating basements. Due to their unsafe nature the chalk-workings are not available to the populace, although showings have been given to individuals. Some have caused subsidence in living history.
Among important buildings is St Mary’s Christian Church, where Mary Tudor, Queen of France and sister of Tudor king Henry VIII, was re-buried, six years after her death, having been moved from the Abbey after her brother’s Breakup of the Monasteries. Queen Victoria had a stained glass window fit into the church to record Mary’s interment.