Sudbury

Sudbury is a small market metropolis in the English county of Suffolk. It is located at the River Stour near the Essex border, and is 97 km north-east of London. At the 2011 census, the parish has a population of 13,063, growing to 21,971 which include the adjoining parish of Great Cornard. It is the largest town of Babergh district council, the neighborhood authorities district, and is represented inside the UK Parliament as a part of the South Suffolk constituency. Evidence of Sudbury as a settlement originates from the quit of the 8th century at some stage in the Anglo-Saxon generation, and its marketplace turned into hooked up within the early 11th century.

Its textile industries prospered during the Late Middle Ages; the wealth of which funded many of its buildings and church buildings. The metropolis have become great for its artwork in the 18th century, being the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough, whose landscapes provided idea to John Constable, any other Suffolk painter of the surrounding Stour Valley vicinity. The nineteenth century noticed the appearance of the railway with the hole of a station on the historical Stour Valley Railway, and Sudbury railway station forms the modern-day terminus of the Gainsborough Line. During World War 2 US Army Airforce bombers operated from RAF Sudbury.