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The
truth is out! We
love our town and
our aim is to help
make it be one of
the best places
to live, work, bring
up your family and
enjoy life.
BURY,
a township, a town,
a parish, two subdistricts,
and a district in
Lancashire. The
township lies all
within the town's
assigned boundaries.
Acres, 2,370. Real
property, £263,333,-of
which £171,785 are
in railways, £1,040
in mines, and £80
in quarries. Pop.,
in 1841, 20,710:
in 1861, 30,397.
Houses, 5,971. The
town lies on the
river Irwell, 2
miles above its
confluence with
the Roach, and 8
NNW of Manchester.
A branch canal goes
south-westward to
the Manchester and
Bolton canal; and
railways go westward,
northward, eastward,
and southward. The
town has a head
post office, two
railway stations
with telegraph,
two banking offices,
several chief inns,
a weekly market
on Saturday, and
three annual fairs;
is a seat of petty
sessions and county
courts, and a polling-place;
and publishes four
weekly newspapers.
Woollen manufacture
was formerly the
main industry; and
is still carried
on in several large
factories. Cotton
manufacture, in
various departments,
is now the staple;
received a great
impulse from inventions
by two natives,
John and Robert
Kay, and from the
enterprise of the
late Sir Robert
Peel's father; and
maintains at present
upwards of twelve
factories for spinning
and weaving, two
for printing and
bleaching, and two
for dyeing. There
are also three large
iron foundries,
several smaller
ones, machine-making
works, hat-making
houses, and other
manufacturing establishments.
John
Marius Wilson, Imperial
Gazetteer of England
and Wales (1870-72)
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