Bury St Edmunds topographic map

Name: Bury St Edmunds topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom (52.22234 0.67387 52.27133 0.76382)

Average elevation: 54 m

Minimum elevation: 24 m

Maximum elevation: 98 m

The name Bury is etymologically connected with borough, which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as German Burg 'fortress, castle' and Bereich '(defined) area' Old Norse borg 'wall, castle'; and Gothic baurg 'city'. They all derive from Proto-Germanic *burgs 'fortress'. This in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhrgh 'fortified elevation', with cognates including Welsh bera 'stack' and Sanskrit bhrant- 'high, elevated building'.

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