Bury was a

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

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from its establishment in 1894 under the

Local Government Act 1894 The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level un ...

, until its abolition in 1933. The district consisted of a number of rural

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es near

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, but did not include Bury itself. It was a successor to the Bury

Rural Sanitary District Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary dis ...

. It originally included Tottington, which was made an

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of its own in 189

In its later form, the district consisted of five parishes split between four disconnected fragments (

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s), which were north-east ( Birtle cum Bamford and Walmersley cum Shuttleworth), south (

Unsworth Unsworth is a village and residential area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of Unsworth Ward, as of the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census is 9,492. The village sits approximately north of ...

), south-west ( Outwood) and west (

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) of Bury itself. The district was abolished and its parishes split up between various urban districts in 1933, under the review caused by the

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. Since 1974 the area forms parts of the

Borough of Rossendale Rossendale () is a district with borough status in Lancashire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and ...

Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Rochdale, The borough covers other outlying towns and villages with a population of 206,500 at the ...

and

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 ...

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070930210050/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10042896&c_id=10001043 Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 History of Lancashire Rural districts of England Borough of Rossendale Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough of Bury {{Lancashire-geo-stub