Bury may refer to: *The

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 Cambr ...

, 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) (1832–1950) *** Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency) (1950–1983) *** Bury North (UK Parliament constituency), from 1983 ***

Bury South (UK Parliament constituency) Bury South is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. At the 2019 General Election it was the 10th most marginal seat in the country, with a majority of 402 for the Conservative Par ...

, from 1983 ** County Borough of Bury, 1846–1974 ** Metropolitan Borough of Bury, 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 itse ...

, 1894–1933 * Bury, Somerset, a hamlet * Bury, West Sussex, a village and civil parish **

Bury (UK electoral ward) Bury was an electoral ward of Chichester District, West Sussex, England that returned one member to sit on Chichester District Council. Following a district boundary review, it was merged into the new Fittleworth ward in 2019 File:2019 collage ...

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 Bury () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Population Notable people * Alexandre Martin (27 April 1815 in Bury – 28 May 1895), nicknamed ''Albert l'ouvrier'' ("Albert the Worker"), was a socialist politician of the Fr ...

, France, a commune

Sports

Bury (professional wrestling) Bury may refer to: *The burial of human remains *-bury, a suffix in English placenames Places England * Bury, Cambridgeshire, a village * Bury, Greater Manchester, a town, historically in Lancashire ** Bury (UK Parliament constituency) (1832� ...

, 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 p ...

, 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 is an English and French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aliaksandr Bury (born 1987), Belorussian tennis player * Bernard de Bury (1720–1785), French musician * Richard de Bury (1287–1345), English priest, teacher, bish ...

Bury (The Fall song) ''Your Future Our Clutter'' is an album by the Fall, released in the UK on 26 April 2010. It is the group's twenty-seventh studio album, and their first for independent record label Domino. The album was recorded at Chairworks Studios, Castle ...

* , a Royal Navy First World War minesweeper * Horace Bury, a character in the science fiction novel '' The Mote in God's Eye''

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England

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