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burial Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

of human remains *

-bury A burh () or burg was an Old English fortification or fortified settlement. In the 9th century, raids and invasions by Vikings prompted Alfred the Great to develop a network of burhs and roads to use against such attackers. Some were new constru ...

, a suffix in English placenames

Places

England

Bury, Cambridgeshire Bury is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Bury lies approximately north/north east of Huntingdon and is near to Ramsey and St Ives. Bury is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridges ...

, a village *

Bury, Greater Manchester Bury ( ) is a market town on the River Irwell in Greater Manchester, England. Metropolitan Borough of Bury is administered from the town, which had an estimated population of 78,723 in 2015. The town is within the historic county boundarie ...

, a town, historically in Lancashire **

Bury (UK Parliament constituency) Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commo ...

(1832–1950) ***

Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency) Bury and Radcliffe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Bury and Radcliffe in North West England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency ...

(1950–1983) ***

Bury North (UK Parliament constituency) Bury North is a borough constituency in Greater Manchester, created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. With a Conservative majority of 105 votes, it is the most marginal constituency for a sitting MP in the U ...

, from 1983 *** Bury South (UK Parliament constituency), from 1983 **

County Borough of Bury Bury was a local government district centred on Bury in the northwest of England from 1846 to 1974. Under the Bury Improvement Act 1846 a board of twenty-seven improvement commissioners was formed for Bury. The Improvement Commissioners Distric ...

, 1846–1974 **

Metropolitan Borough of Bury The Metropolitan Borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England, just north of Manchester, to the east of Bolton and west of Rochdale. The borough is centred around the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, Bu ...

, from 1974 **

Bury Rural District Bury was a rural district in Lancashire, England from its establishment in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, until its abolition in 1933. The district consisted of a number of rural civil parishes near Bury, but did not include Bury its ...

, 1894–1933 *

Bury, Somerset Brompton Regis (formerly known as Kingsbrompton) is a village and civil parish in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England about north-east of Dulverton. It is situated on the River Pulham in the Brendon Hills within the Exmo ...

, a hamlet *

Bury, West Sussex Bury is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is located on the A29 road, around south-west of Pulborough. The villages of Bury and nearby West Burton are sited at the foot of the scarp slope of the ...

, a village and civil parish ** Bury (UK electoral ward) *

Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market town, market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – ...

, a town in Suffolk, commonly referred to as Bury *

New Bury Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Bolton, 4.3 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and northwest of Manchester. Historically in Lancashire, Farnworth lies on the River Irw ...

, a suburb of Farnworth in the Bolton district of Greater Manchester

Elsewhere

* Bury, Hainaut, Belgium, a village in the commune of Péruwelz, Wallonia *

Bury, Quebec Bury is a municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. Bury is home to a Canada Day celebration which is well known in the Estrie region and which draws in triple the town's populat ...

, Canada, a municipality * Bury, Oise, France, a commune

Sports

* Bury (professional wrestling), a slang term used in the world of wrestling *

Bury F.C. Bury Football Club is an English association football club based in Bury, Greater Manchester, whose team last played in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of English football, in the 2018–19 season. The team are known as "The Shakers", and ...

, a professional football team in Bury, northern England *

Bury Town F.C. Bury Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club, based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Ram Meadow. History Early history The club was established by William Lake at a mee ...

, a football team from Bury St Edmunds, south-east England

Other uses

* Bury (surname) * Bury (The Fall song) * , a Royal Navy First World War minesweeper * Horace Bury, a character in the science fiction novel ''

The Mote in God's Eye ''The Mote in God's Eye'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between hu ...

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