Description
Bury, a parish in Huntingdonshire, on an affluent of the river Nen, 1/2 of a mile S of Ramsey station on the G.N.R., and 8 miles N by W of St Ives. It has a post office under Huntingdon; money order and telegraph office, Ramsey. Acreage, 1446 ; population of the civil parish, 377; of the ecclesiastical, 417. The manor belonged to Ramsey Abbey, and passed to successively the Williamses, the Bainbridges, and the Barnards. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £112 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church is partly Norman and Early English, and is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
