Sudbury

Sudbury, a municipal borough (till 1843 also parliamentary) of Suffolk, on the Stour at the Essex boundary, 16 miles S. of Bury St Edmunds and 58 NE. of London. It has three old churches, mainly Perpendicular in style, a town-hall (1828), grammar-school (1491; rebuilt 1857), corn exchange (1841), and manufactures of cocoa-nut matting, silk, bricks, &c.—the famous woollen industry of the Flemings, dating from the 14th century, having died out. Simon Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded by Tyler in 1381, and Gainsborough were natives. Pop. (1851) 6043; (1891) 7059.