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Bury St Edmunds

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Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England. It is the main town in the St Edmundsbury borough. The town is probably most famous for the ruined abbey which stands near the town center. Next to the abbey is the cathedral, created only relatively recently in 1913.

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.

The abbey gardens had an Internet bench installed in the late 1990s, which allowed anyone to plug in a portable computing device and connect to the Internet.

The town has a small Theatre Royal which is still in use.

Britain's smallest public house, The Nutshell, is in the town marketplace.

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