A SLEEPY town famous for cheese and printing Prince Harry’s book has the highest number of Satanists in England.
Bungay in Suffolk has at least 70 devil-worshippers living there, figures suggest — more than 100 times the national average.
With a population of just 8,500, it means almost one per cent of residents officially registered themselves as loving Lucifer in the 2021 census.
It makes Bungay the unlikely Satanist capital of England and Wales.
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Printer Clays, which employs 700 in the town, produced Prince Harry’s controversial book Spare and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
And cheese Baron Bigod, which is made in the town, was named Britain’s best by The Fine Food Digest Awards.
One resident said: “Everyone knows there’s some funny locals. It’s always the quiet places you’ve got to watch.
“Still, somewhere famous for books and cheese is about the last place you would expect to be full of Satanists.”
Judy Cloke, a Conservative county and district councillor representing Bungay, insisted: “Bungay is most definitely not the devil worshipping capital of the UK.”
Bungay Town Council clerk Rosalind Barnett said: “Devil worship has never crossed our radar and has never been discussed.
We don’t know anything about it.”
The town’s mayor Tony Dawes said: “I am wondering if people with nothing better to do during lockdown decided to put down on the census that they were satanists.”