Bury, a manufacturing town in Lancashire, 10 m. NW. of Manchester; originally but a small place engaged in woollen manufacture, but cotton is now the staple manufacture in addition to paper-works, dye-works, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 56,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burton-on-Trent * Bury St. Edmunds