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Bury Bolton Street railway station
Bury Bolton Street is a heritage railway station in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It formerly served the town on the national railway network between 1846 and 1980; it is now a stop on the East Lancashire Railway.
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East Lancashire Railway
The East Lancashire Railway is a twelve-and-a-half-mile (20 km) heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester, and Rawtenstall, Lancashire. There are intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street, Burrs Country Park, Summerseat and Ramsbottom, with the line crossing the border into Rossendale serving Irwell Vale and Rawtenstall. Before closure, the line terminated at Bacup.
The heritage line is now just over 12 miles (19 km) long and has a mainline connection with the national railway network at Castleton, just beyond Heywood. The ELR is planning to extend the running line to Castleton in the future.
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Bury Rural District
Bury was a rural district in Lancashire, England from its establishment in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, until its abolition in 1933. The district consisted of a number of rural civil parishes near Bury, but did not include Bury itself. It was a successor to the Bury Rural Sanitary District.
It originally included Tottington, which was made an urban district of its own in 1899 [1]
In its later form, the district consisted of five parishes split between four disconnected fragments (exclaves), which were north-east (Birtle cum Bamford and Walmersley cum Shuttleworth), south (Unsworth), south-west (Outwood) and west (Ainsworth) of Bury itself.
The district was abolished and its parishes split up between various urban districts in 1933, under the review caused by the Local Government Act 1929. Since 1974 the area forms parts of the Borough of Rossendale, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale and Metropolitan Borough of Bury.
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Old White Lion, Bury
The Old White Lion is a Grade II listed pub in Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
It was built in the late 19th century and had a rear extension added in the mid-20th century.
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Bury Castle, Greater Manchester
Bury Castle was an early medieval moated manor house in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, its remains are listed as a scheduled monument. The manor house was built in 1469 by Sir Thomas Pilkington – lord of the manors of Bury and Pilkington, and an influential member of the Lancashire gentry. He was granted permission by Edward IV to: "'build to make and to construct walls and turrets with stone, lime and sand around and below his manor house in Bury in the County of Lancaster, and to shut in the manor house with such manner of walls and turrets; also to embattle, crenellate and machicolate those towers." It is situated at the top of a slope overlooking the River Irwell, in a strong defensive position. Excavations have revealed six main construction phases on the site. The first phase, dated between 1359 and 1400, produced a house platform surrounded by a moat. The building was razed to the ground (slighted) on the orders of Henry VII after Sir Thomas supported the House of York in the Wars of the Roses, particularly the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. In addition, all of Sir Thomas' lands were confiscated.
In 1540 the antiquary John Leland described Bury Castle as "a ruin of a castle by the Parish Church in the town". In 1753 Thomas Percival drew plans of the visible foundations of the castle walls, measuring 600 ft (180 m) by 270 ft (82 m). The ruins were subsequently looted to provide building material for the town of Bury. In 1865 further foundations were discovered, this time of a keep or defensive tower measuring 82 ft (25 m) by 63 ft (19 m), with walls 6 ft (1.8 m) thick.
The remains of Bury Castle drew public attention in 1973, when amateur archaeologists uncovered stonework that had previously lain beneath a car park. The site, which is owned by Bury Council and has undergone "restoration and enhancement work", has been open to the public since 2000 and now forms the centrepiece of Castle Square in the town centre. Bury Castle is about 3.3 km (2.1 mi) north of Radcliffe Tower, an early 15th-century moated manor house.