Bury

Bury is a town in Lancashire, northern England.

Bury may also refer to:

• The burial of human remains
• -bury, a combining form of byrig ("near the fort") in English placenames

Places

England

• Bury (UK Parliament constituency), Lancashire
• Metropolitan Borough of Bury, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, with HQ at Bury
• County Borough of Bury, Lancashire, a former local government district from 1846 to 1974
• Bury Rural District, Lancashire, a rural district from 1894 to 1933
• Bury, Cambridgeshire, a village
• Bury, West Sussex, a village and civil parish

Elsewhere

• Bury, Hainaut, Belgium, a village in the commune of Péruwelz
• Bury, Quebec, Canada, a municipality
• Bury, Oise, France, a commune
• Bury, Moselle, France, a village in the commune of Marieulles-Vezon

Sports

• Bury (professional wrestling), a slang term used in the world of wrestling
• Bury F.C., a professional football team in Bury, northern England
• Bury Town F.C., a football team from Bury St Edmunds, south-east England.

Schools in Bury

• Bury College
• Bury Church of England High School
• Bury Grammar School

Other uses

• Bury (surname)
• HMS Bury (1919), a Royal Navy First World War minesweeper
• Horace Bury, a character in the science fiction novel The Mote in God's Eye

See also

• Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, British locomotive builder
• Bury St Edmunds, a town in Suffolk