Bury

Bury is a town and borough in in the northwest of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. It’s a former textile-milling town, with a population in 2024 of 199,000.
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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.

Stadium
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is a football ground in Bury, , England, built for Bury F.C. in 1885. The first match was played on 12 September 1885 between Bury and a team from .

Museum
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The is a museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Its collection includes the uniforms, medal and artefacts of the Lancashire Fusiliers.

College
is a coeducational Roman Catholic sixth form college in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Originally a single-sex school, it was founded by religious sisters in 1878 and later became Bury Convent Grammar School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Radcliffe and Whitefield.

Town
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is a market town in the , , England. It lies in the Irwell Valley 7 miles northwest of and 3 miles southwest of Bury and is contiguous with to the south. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Bury.

Town
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Bury is a town and borough in in the northwest of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. It’s a former textile-milling town, with a population in 2024 of 199,000. is situated 2½ miles south of Bury.

Village
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is a village forming part of the , in , England. It’s to the south of and 2 miles northwest of Bury.

Bury

Latitude
53.5928° or 53° 35′ 34″ north
Longitude
-2.2973° or 2° 17′ 50″ west
Population
61,000
Elevation
305 feet (93 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BU2
Open location code
9C5VHPV3+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27329906
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654187
Wiki­data ID
Q47822
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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, Greater Manchester”
  • 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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