In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described New Bury like this:

BURY (New), a chapelry in Deane parish, Lancashire; 4 miles SE of Bolton. Pop., about £4,000. Living, a vicarage. The church was built in 1866. See Kersley.

New Bury through time

New Bury is now part of BOLTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how BOLTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about New Bury itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of New Bury, in Bolton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25118

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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