Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
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
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

Travel writing

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.
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
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