Bury
Bury is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. Bury is a former mill town known for manufacturing textiles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 61,000 residents
- Description: town in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bury, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gigg Lane and Fusilier Museum.
Gigg Lane
Stadium
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Gigg Lane is a football ground in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, built for Bury F.C. in 1885. The first match was played on 12 September 1885 between Bury and a team from Wigan.
Fusilier Museum
Museum
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Fusilier Museum is a museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Its collection includes the uniforms, medal and artefacts of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Bury Transport Museum
Museum
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Bury Transport Museum is a transport museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, situated in the former Castlecroft Goods Warehouse, a Grade II listed building from 1846, on Castlecroft Road, with the main entrance from Bolton Street, BL9 0EY.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Radcliffe and Whitefield.
Radcliffe
Town
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Radcliffe is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the Irwell Valley 7 miles northwest of Manchester and 3 miles southwest of Bury and is contiguous with Whitefield to the south. Radcliffe is situated 2½ miles southwest of Bury.
Whitefield
Town
Photo: David Ingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bury is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. Bury is a former mill town known for manufacturing textiles. Whitefield is situated 2½ miles south of Bury.
Walshaw
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Walshaw is a village forming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. It’s to the south of Tottington and 2 miles northwest of Bury.
Bury
- Categories: unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5928° or 53° 35′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.2973° or 2° 17′ 50″ westPopulation
61,000Elevation
305 feet (93 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BU2Open location code
9C5VHPV3+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 27329906OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bury” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بري”
- Armenian: “Բերի”
- Asturian: “Bury”
- Basque: “Bury (Manchester Handia)”
- Basque: “Bury”
- Bavarian: “Bury”
- Belarusian: “Бэры”
- Bengali: “বুরি”
- Bulgarian: “Бери”
- Catalan: “Bury”
- Cebuano: “Bury (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Bury”
- Chinese: “伯里”
- Chinese: “貝利”
- Chinese: “貝里”
- Czech: “Bury”
- Danish: “Bury”
- Dutch: “Bury”
- Esperanto: “Bury”
- Finnish: “Bury”
- French: “Bury”
- German: “Bury”
- Greek: “Μπέρι”
- Gujarati: “બરી”
- Hebrew: “בורי (מנצ’סטר רבתי)”
- Icelandic: “Bury”
- Indonesian: “Bury”
- Irish: “Bury”
- Italian: “Bury”
- Japanese: “ベリー”
- Kannada: “ಬರಿ”
- Korean: “베리”
- Ladin: “Bury”
- Latvian: “Beri”
- Lithuanian: “Beris”
- Luxembourgish: “Bury”
- Macedonian: “Бери”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bury”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bury”
- Norwegian: “Bury”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bury”
- Persian: “باری”
- Persian: “بری”
- Polish: “Bury”
- Portuguese: “Bury”
- Romanian: “Bury”
- Russian: “Бери”
- Serbian: “Бери”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bury”
- Silesian: “Bury (Greater Manchester)”
- Silesian: “Bury”
- Slovak: “Bury”
- Slovenian: “Bury”
- Spanish: “Bury (Gran Mánchester)”
- Spanish: “Bury”
- Swedish: “Bury, Greater Manchester”
- Swedish: “Bury”
- Tamil: “பாரி”
- Tatar: “Бери”
- Telugu: “బరి”
- Ukrainian: “Бері”
- Urdu: “بری”
- Urdu: “بیوری، لنکاشائر”
- Volapük: “Bury”
- Welsh: “Bury”
- Yue Chinese: “貝利”
- “Bury”
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