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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 Anglo-Saxon 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 parishes in England, civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Bury lies approximately north/north east of Huntingdon and is near to Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, Ramsey and St Ives, Huntingdonshire, St Ives. Bury is situat ...

, a village *

Bury, Greater Manchester Bury (, ) is a market town on the River Irwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. which had a population of 81,101 in 2021 while the wider borough had a population of 193,846. The town was originally part of the ...

, 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. It was a Conserva ...

(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 was the most marginal constituency for a sitting MP in the Uni ...

, from 1983 ***

Bury South (UK Parliament constituency) Bury South is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2019 by Christian Wakeford. Wakeford was elected as a Conservative Party (UK), Conserva ...

, from 1983 **

County Borough of Bury Bury was a local government district centred on Bury, Greater Manchester, 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 Improve ...

, 1846–1974 **

Metropolitan Borough of Bury The Metropolitan Borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is north of Manchester, to the east of Bolton and west of Rochdale. The borough is centred around the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury but also ...

, 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 it ...

, 1894–1933 *

Bury, Somerset Brompton Regis (formerly known as Kingsbrompton) is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England about north-east of Dulverton. It is situated on the River Pulham in the Brendon Hills within the Exmoor National Park, close to Wimbleball L ...

, 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 t ...

, a village and civil parish **

Bury (UK electoral ward) Bury was an electoral ward of Chichester District, West Sussex, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 6 ...

Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as ''Bury,'' is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk District, West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St. Edmunds an ...

, 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 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and northwest of Manchester. Within the historic county of Lancashire, Farnworth lies on ...

, 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 popul ...

, 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 ...

, France, a commune

Sports

Bury (professional wrestling) Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnival Carnival (known as Shrovetide in certain localities) is a festive season that o ...

, 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. It most recently played in the Premier Division of the North West Counties League, the ninth tier of the English football pyramid, following a 2023 ...

, a professional football team in Bury, northern England *

Bury Town F.C. Bury Town Football Club is a semi-professional association football, 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 W ...

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

Other uses

Bury (surname) Bury is an English, French, and Slavic, particularly Polish, surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aliaksandr Bury (born 1987), Belarusian tennis player * Alison Bury (born 1954), British violinist and orchestra leader * Bernard ...

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, Cast ...

* , 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 ...

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