NationMaster - Encyclopedia: St Edmundsbury (borough)

Borough of St Edmundsbury
Shown within Suffolk
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Suffolk
Area: - Total	Ranked 63rd 656.96 km�
Admin. HQ:	Bury St Edmunds
ONS code:	42UF
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 219th 98,459 150 / km�
Ethnicity:	98.0% White
Politics
St Edmundsbury Borough Council http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	David Ruffley, Richard Spring, Tim Yeo

St Edmundsbury is a borough in Suffolk, England. It is named after its main town, Bury St Edmunds. Other towns in the district include Haverhill.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill Urban District, Clare Rural District and Thingoe Rural District.

Districts of England - East of England
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Administrative counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk

Categories: UK geography stubs | Suffolk

Results from FactBites:

Bury St Edmunds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (840 words)
	Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England.
	It is the main town in the borough of St Edmundsbury and is probably most famous for the ruined abbey which stands near the town centre.
	For a later important service at the new cathedral in the 1960s Benjamin Britten wrote his Fanfare for St Edmundsbury, a work for three trumpets which is now well-known.

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