St Edmundsbury was a

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, England. It was named after its main town,

Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton ...

. The second town in the district was Haverhill. The population of the district was 111,008 at the 2011 Census. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the

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(along with the abolition of the county of West Suffolk) by the merger of the Borough of

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Clare Rural District Clare Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created in 1894, comprising those parishes in the Risbridge rural sanitary district which were in Suffolk. On 1 April 1935 it was enlarged by the addi ...

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Thingoe Rural District Thingoe Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created in 1894. On 1 April 1935 the parish of Depden was transferred to the Clare Rural District. On the same date the district was enlarged by the ...

. Until March 2009, its main offices were in Bury St Edmunds (Angel Hill and Western Way). Thereafter, a purpose-built complex named West Suffolk House housed both St Edmundsbury and Suffolk County Council staff. In 2008, the Council submitted a proposal to the Boundary Commission which would see it as central to a new West Suffolk unitary council. However, the proposal was rejected and no unitary scheme for Suffolk was adopted. (For more details see also

.) In October 2011,

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and Forest Heath District Council agreed to have one chief executive, a shared management team and a combined workforce. St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath were merged on 1 April 2019 to form the new West Suffolk district.

List of communities

Freedom of the Borough

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of St Edmundsbury.

Individuals

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Ronald Hartley: 1999.

Military Units

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: 2000. * The Normandy Veterans' Association (Bury St Edmunds and District Branch No35): 2004. * 1st Battalion The

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: 2006. * 3 Regiment Army Air Corps ( Wattisham): 2010. https://www.westsuffolk.gov.uk/Council/Whos_who/upload/Freedom-of-the-Borough.pdf

Arms

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