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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bury. You may be able to find further references to Bury in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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BURY | a township, a town, a parish, two subdistricts, and a district | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Bury.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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BIRCH, or Birch-St. Mary | a chapelry | Imperial |
Bircle St John | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
Coupe Lench, Newhallhey, and Hall Carr | township | Bartholomew |
COWPE-LENCHES, NEWHALLHEY, AND HALL-CARR | a township | Imperial |
Edenfield | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
EDENFIELD | a chapelry and a sub-district | Imperial |
Elton | township | Bartholomew |
Foebank | village | Bartholomew |
FOE BANK | a village | Imperial |
Hall Carr | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Heap | township | Bartholomew |
HEAP | a village, a township, and a parochial chapelry | Imperial |
HELMSHORE | a village | Imperial |
HEYWOOD | a town and a chapelry | Imperial |
Holcombe | ecclesiastical district and village with railway station | Bartholomew |
Musbury | township and village | Bartholomew |
MUSBURY | a township | Imperial |
RAMSBOTTOM | a small town | Imperial |
Rosebank | hamlet | Bartholomew |
ROSE-BANK | a hamlet | Imperial |
Shuttleworth | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
SHUTTLEWORTH | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
STARLING | a village | Imperial |
Stubbins | village with railway station | Bartholomew |
STUBBINS | a village | Imperial |
Summerseat | village with railway station | Bartholomew |
Tottington Higher End | township | Bartholomew |
TOTTINGTON-HIGHER-END | a township | Imperial |
Tottington Lower End | township | Bartholomew |
TOTTINGTON-LOWER-END | a township | Imperial |
Walmersley | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
WALMERSLEY | a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district | Imperial |
WATERFOOT | a village and a chapelry | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bury within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland | 2 |
William Camden | Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Elton | 0 | 2 |
Woolfold | 0 | 1 |
Walmersley | 0 | 2 |
Walshaw | 0 | 1 |
Heap | 0 | 2 |
Summerseat | 0 | 2 |
Pilsworth | 0 | 2 |
Unsworth | 0 | 2 |
Tottington | 0 | 6 |
Birtle | 0 | 2 |
Radcliffe | 1 | 2 |
Ainsworth | 1 | 3 |
Heywood | 0 | 2 |
Ashworth | 0 | 2 |
Pilkington | 0 | 2 |
Whitefield | 0 | 3 |
Harwood | 0 | 2 |
Hawkshaw Lane | 0 | 1 |
Holcombe | 0 | 2 |
Birch | 0 | 2 |