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St Edmunds

Suffolk, that east coast county tucked in between Norfolk and Essex, is chock-a-block with pretty towns and villages, but few can boast quite as much history and heritage as Bury St Edmunds.

Unlike nearby villages such as Lavenham, which kept their medieval facades (due to a lack of money rather than a deliberate act of preservation), Bury was given an elegant makeover in Georgian times, lending it a rather sophisticated air.

It was to this newly grandiose town that

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