Bury St Edmunds

town in West Suffolk, England
Place civil_parish Q764754
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Summary

Bury St Edmunds is a civil parish[1]. It ranks in the top 0.12% of civil parish entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,864 views/month, #2 of 1,641).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: West Suffolk[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: market town[5]
  • Twinned administrative body: Compiègne[6]
  • Commons category: Bury St Edmunds[7]
  • Located in time zone: UTC±00:00[8]
  • Said to be the same as: Bury St. Edmunds[9]
  • Local dialing code: 01284[10]
  • OS grid reference: TL855645[11]
  • Authority: Bury St Edmunds Town Council[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bury St Edmunds[13]
  • Commons gallery: Bury St Edmunds[14]
  • Population: 40,664[15], 41,212[16], 35,015[17]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[20]
  • Capital of: West Suffolk[21], St Edmundsbury[22]
  • Category for people born here: Q9223758[23]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Bury St Edmunds[24]
  • Category of associated people: Q133838129[25]
  • Historic county: Suffolk[26]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Bury St Edmunds include it railway station[27], a railway station[28], in United Kingdom[29].

Why It Matters

Bury St Edmunds has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include it railway station[27], a railway station[28], in United Kingdom[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC±00:00
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 14w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 99805
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14586: 99805, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Bury St Edmunds
    Capital of → West Suffolk, St Edmundsbury
    Instance of → —
    Said to be the same as → Bury St. Edmunds
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0324324-Bury-Saint-Edmunds-Anglie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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