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Located in the heart of Bury St Edmunds, the abbey was once one of the richest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England.

The first church on this site was completed in 1841 but suffered significant fire damage, in May 1891 it was reported that that the Vicar had ‘conducted a wedding in the ruins’.

St George's was built in 1951.

St Leonard's church has stood in the centre of the village for almost a thousand years.

Grade II listed building dating from the 13th century.

A church at Wilsford is mentioned in Domesday Book, but the building dates to the 11th to 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1860 by Kirk and Parry.

The village of Balderton is mentioned in Domesday and there was possibly a church of Saxon origin although no trace of this has ever been found.

Like Barfreston, only a few miles to the south east, Patrixbourne has an important Norman church.

The church dates from the 14th century and is a large, handsome structure consisting of three aisles, three chancels and a tower.

The county boundary makes several peculiar changes of direction in this area, with the result that the church and its yard are in Norfolk, while most of the rest of Walsoken is in Cambridgeshire.