According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

The local levies mobilised to stop them immediately changed sides, and by the following day Isabella was in Bury St Edmunds and shortly afterwards had swept inland to Cambridge.

Great abbeys and priories like Glastonbury, Walsingham, Bury St. Edmunds, and Shaftesbury which had flourished as pilgrimage sites for many centuries, were soon reduced to ruins.

When St Olave's bridge needed to be rebuilt in 1847, he explained that although he owned it, he had let out the collection of tolls, and such matters were dealt with by the judges at Bury St Edmunds Assizes.

Of the three, which were called Royce and had two cylinder engines, one was given to Ernest Claremont and the other sold to one of the other directors, Henry Edmunds.

Edmunds was a friend of Charles Rolls who had a car showroom in London selling imported models and showed him his car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.

However, others criticized the lack of interior room and reduced sight lines despite its full-sized exterior, and Edmunds noted that the eighth-generation Honda Accord ( which competes in the midsize category ) had superior driving dynamics and a more efficient design and offered almost as much interior space as the Taurus despite considerably smaller external dimensions.

The rear had new sleeve notes written by English DJ, Noel Edmunds.

Finding that no lesser person than the jurist Sir Matthew Hale had permitted this evidence, supported by the eminent philosopher, physician and author Thomas Browne, to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women, held in 1662 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, they also accepted its validity and the trials proceeded.

Because the two main singers in Rockpile had recording contracts with different record labels and managers, albums were always credited to either Lowe or Edmunds, so there is only one official Rockpile album, which was not released until the waning days of the collaboration: 1980's Seconds of Pleasure, featuring the Lowe songs " When I Write The Book " and " Heart ".

By the time this court session resumed in 1647 Stearne and Hopkins had retired, Hopkins to Manningtree and Stearne to Bury St Edmunds.

The inscription on the short-cross penny was still, while the long-cross pennies were variously inscribed ( King Henry the Third ), while one issue unpopularly omitted the moneyer's name, instead having on the obverse and on the reverse, while another issue had on the obverse and continued on the reverse with indicating it was minted in London or Canterbury or Bury St Edmunds.

Coin production had to continue while the king made his seven-year journey home, so long-cross pennies inscribed continued to be produced at the Bury St Edmunds, Durham, and London mints.

After Love Sculpture split, Edmunds had a UK Christmas Number 1 single in 1970 with " I Hear You Knocking ", a Smiley Lewis cover, which he came across while producing Shakin ' Stevens and the Sunsets ' first album entitled A Legend.

Edmunds had intended to record Wilbert Harrison's " Let's Work Together ", but when he was beaten to that song by Canned Heat, he adapted the arrangement he intended to use for it to " I Hear You Knocking ", producing a highly original remake.

Unfortunately, the success of the single caused EMI's Regal Zonophone Records to use an option that it had to claim Edmunds ' album, 1972's Rockpile, and the momentum from the single's success on a different label went away.

Edmunds had more UK hits during this time, including Elvis Costello's " Girls Talk ", Nick Lowe's " I Knew The Bride ", Hank DeVito's " Queen of Hearts " ( written for Edmunds and later a US hit for Juice Newton using the same arrangement ), Graham Parker's " Crawling from the Wreckage ", and Melvin Endsley's " Singing the Blues " ( originally a 1956 US # 1 hit for Guy Mitchell, and a UK # 1 for both Mitchell and Tommy Steele ).

The prosecution asserted that the former band members were due a share of those additional royalties that Stevens and Edmunds had received from the successful reissue of the album A Legend during the early eighties.

The 4th Marquess was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also sat, as his uncle had done, as Conservative Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds.

In 1616 he was appointed to the rectory of Horningsheath ( near Bury St Edmunds, where he had previously worked ), which he held for twelve years.

Also in 1985, she had a starring role as Ms. Edmunds in the original Bridge to Terabithia.

Moyse's Hall Museum Bury St Edmunds discovered and facilitated the handing over of the collections following a VE Day ( Victory in Europe Day )/ VJ day ( Victory over Japan Day ) exhibition, to which the family had bought Brian's art and other personal artefacts.

Despite this, the Eastern Counties Navigation and Transport Co Ltd bought the river from Lee Brook to Bury St Edmunds in 1890, made Tuddenham Mill Stream navigable, repaired locks and staunches on the main river, and re-opened it in September 1894.

Greene King Brewery bought Morland for £ 182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

When TVS lost its franchise, Edmunds and Buchanan bought the rights to the show and produced Art attack through their company, The Media Merchants.

In 2004 the brand was bought by Premier Foods and production was moved to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

On September 11, 1936, at a cost of $ 40, 000, the Palisades Playground and field house was dedicated at its current Sherier and Edmunds Place location.

Ickworth House is a country house outside Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

Musician Dave Edmunds, a " permanent fixture " at Rockfield Studios for twenty years, lives in the town.

A few days later, on 15 June 1381, the elder John Cavendish was seized at Bury St Edmunds and beheaded by a mob led by Jack Straw.

During the mid 1970s, many of these production deals ended and, despite a few sporadic releases by Blue Mink, Geordie and Dave Edmunds, eventually EMI ceased to use the imprint as a major pop label.

Most of the programmes came from Ipswich, and a few from Bury St Edmunds.

There are two Met office reporting stations in the vicinity of Bury St Edmunds, Brooms Barn ( elevation 76m ), 6. 5 miles to the West of the town centre, and Honington ( elevation 51m ), about 6. 5 miles to the North.

The village lies on the River Blackbourn, approximately 8 miles from Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles from Thetford, Norfolk.

Its studios are at Broadcasting House in St Matthews Street, Ipswich on 95. 5 ( Oulton, near Lowestoft ), 95. 9 ( Aldeburgh ), 103. 9 ( Manningtree ) and 104. 6 ( Great Barton, four miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds near the B1106 and Conyers Green ) FM.

Risby is a village in Suffolk, located over three miles west of Bury St. Edmunds, north of the A14 road.

The invented back-story has the ladies residing in the village or small town of Stackton Tressel in Suffolk, which, in the words of Bracket, lies 17 miles from Bury St. Edmunds " as the crow flies, though there haven't been a lot of crows this year ".

The Newmarket Ridge is a ridge of low chalk hills extending for over 20 miles, from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, passing through the south-eastern corner of Cambridgeshire.

It is 8 miles from Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles from Thetford in Norfolk.

Ingham is a small village in Suffolk, England, located about six miles north of Bury St Edmunds on the A143 to Thetford in Norfolk.

It is around five miles north-north-east of Bury St Edmunds.