Practicalities
From Bury St Edmunds' train station , it's ten minutes' walk south to Angel Hill, along Northgate Street. The bus station is on St Andrew Street North, near Cornhill. The town's tourist office , at 6 Angel Hill (Easter-Sept Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-3pm; Oct-Easter Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm; tel 01284/764667, tic@stedsbc.gov.uk ), provides free town maps and has a useful range of leaflets. The pick of the town's hotels is the Angel , on Angel Hill (tel 01284/714000; GBP70-90), an immaculately maintained, county-set hotel with thick carpets, oodles of wood panelling and suitably luxurious rooms. A good alternative is the Chantry Hotel , 8 Sparhawk St (tel 01284/767427; GBP60-70), which has sixteen comfortable rooms in a converted Georgian building near the Manor House Museum. The town has a good supply of B&Bs , including the excellent South Hill House , 43 Southgate St (tel 01284/755650, ; GBP40-50), a handsome old town house with many Georgian features and three large en-suite bedrooms. For restaurants , Maison Bleue , 31 Churchgate St (tel 01284/760623; closed Sun), serves wonderfully fresh seafood at moderate prices. The Vaults , inside the medieval undercroft at the Angel Hotel , is also first-rate, with tasty main dishes from GBP7.50. Otherwise, aim for coffee, cakes and snacks in either the Cathedral Refectory (closed Sun) or the Scandinavia Coffee House , 30 Abbeygate St. Of the pubs , one you shouldn't miss is the Nutshell (closed Sun), on The Traverse at the top of Abbeygate, which, at sixteen feet by seven and a half, claims to be Britain's smallest. Greene King's brewery tap is the ancient-looking Dog & Partridge , 29 Crown St.
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