It is mentioned both in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in AD 797[?] and in the Domesday Book.
It has three medieval churches.
It was once East Anglia's largest silk and woollen centre Weaving is still carried out today.
It was also a busy riverport.
The painter Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury in 1727.
The Sudbury Society was formed in 1973 after a successful campaign to save the Corn Exchange from developers.
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