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Bury Saint Edmunds
Town grew around 7th-cen. monastery, built by Sigebert, King of East Angles; noted for 10th-cen. shrine of St. Edmund & ruins of 11th-cen. Benedictine abbey, where barons drew up basis for Magna Carta in in 1214; site of Town Hall (1780) by Robert Adam.