A 1,000-year-old abbey became a site of pilgrimage and sparked a "civil war" with the townsfolk.

A walkway leading up to the remnants of the Abbey Church at Bury St. Edmunds, England, Dec. 13, 2022. The ruins were once the resting place of the East Anglian King Edmund, ...

The ruins of an 11th-century Benedictine Abbey inside the Abbey Gardens in Bury St. Edmunds, England. The abbey was damaged by rioting townspeople in 1327 and stripped of its valuable building ...

Abbey Ruins These ruins are all that remain of the original Abbey at Bury St Edmunds, once the capital of East Anglia. The Abbey was one of the richest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in ...

The Bury St Edmunds Society has awarded £10,000 to the Abbey of St Edmund heritage project, becoming the first organisation in the west Suffolk town to provide financial support.

Where to go: Bury St. Edmunds Abbey Gardens Mustow Street, Bury St. Edmunds. 011-44-2847-57490. www.visit-burystedmunds.co.uk. The ruins of the enormous Benedictine abbey, founded in the 11th ...

Northanger Abbey and will be directed by Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds' Director Karen Simpson. Karen Simpson said 'I love Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey is one of my favourites.