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Bury

A Greater Manchester town, Bury (/ˈbɛri/, locally also /ˈbʊri/) is on the Irwell River southwest of Rochdale by (9.5 km) 5.9 miles, (12.7 km) 7.9 miles to Manchester's northwest, and (8.9 km) 5.5 miles east of Bolton. Wrigley collection is contained in the Bury Art collection, which includes works by Edwin Henry Landseer, J. M. W. Turner, Peter De Wint and John Constable.

Pevsner described the building, by Willoughby and Woodhouse in 1899, as "Bury's best building." When Bury Knowsley Street was closed, Bury was served by major railway stations between 1848 and 1970.

Connecting the town to both Bolton and Heywood, the station of Bury Knowsley Street had services for passengers travelling through Bury east-west. In Bury's centre, the station is close to the Millgate Shopping Centre, Bury Market, the main square and the Rock.

Stand Sixth Form College, Peel Sixth Form College, and Bury Technical College merger formed Bury College. The local football club is Bury F.C. Found north of what is the centre, Bury Museum, containing several coins that are bronze and small, has an urn that is Roman dated for AD 253-282.

Supporters of Bury GS were the 15th and 16th Earls, both in terms of land and financially, and in their honour named Derby is one of the houses of the school. Bury's history is not complete without reference to its town of Lancashire Fusiliers role, according to writer Geoffrey Moorhouse.

Together with Whitefield, Tottington and Ramsbottom in 1974 to become the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Bury merged with the neighbouring Prestwich and Radcliffe boroughs that are municipal with the passage of the LGA 1972. On the Market Place in the centre, Bury Parish Church is a Grade I listed building.