Bury may refer to:
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burial of human remains
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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
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Bury, Cambridgeshire, a village
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Bury, Greater Manchester, a town, historically in Lancashire
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Bury (UK Parliament constituency)
Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme l ...
(1832–1950)
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Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency) (1950–1983)
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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 ...
, from 1983
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Bury South (UK Parliament constituency), from 1983
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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
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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 but also includes othe ...
, from 1974
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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
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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
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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 th ...
, a village and civil parish
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Bury (UK electoral ward)
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Bury St Edmunds, a town in Suffolk, commonly referred to as Bury
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New Bury, a suburb of Farnworth in the Bolton district of Greater Manchester
Elsewhere
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Bury, Hainaut, Belgium, a village in the commune of Péruwelz, Wallonia
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Bury, Quebec, Canada, a municipality
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Bury, Oise, France, a commune
Sports
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Bury (professional wrestling), a slang term used in the world of wrestling
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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
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Bury Town F.C., a football team from Bury St Edmunds, south-east England
Other uses
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Bury (surname)
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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 h ...
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See also
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Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, British locomotive builder
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