53°35′35″N2°17′56″W / 53.593°N 2.299°W /53.593; -2.299Bury was arural district inLancashire,England from its establishment in 1894 under theLocal Government Act 1894, until its abolition in 1933. The district consisted of a number of ruralcivil parishes nearBury, but did not include Bury itself. It was a successor to the BuryRural Sanitary District.
It originally includedTottington, which was made anurban 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 andWalmersley 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 theLocal Government Act 1929. Since 1974 the area forms parts of theBorough of Rossendale,Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale andMetropolitan Borough of Bury.
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