1) Despite Bury being 'The Home of The Black Pudding', the World Black Pudding Throwing competition is hosted by rivals, Ramsbottom and the Black Pudding Festival is held in Bacup.
2) The Wellington Barracks, the home of the 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment was actually in Bolton Road, Bury
3) Bury used to be called Bury St Edmunds, until a raiding party of Suffolk and Cambridge Monks headed North and exhumed the body of St Edmund from Bury Municipal Cemetery and Mausoleum and returned him his rightful home exactly halfway between Cambridge and Ipswich. A new Abbey and Town were created here and subsequently called Bury St Edmunds in 1093. Bury St Edmunds in Lancashire subsequently lost it's full moniker and has since just been called Bury.
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If I hadn't included th word "single" there I would have been wrong because or Shrewsbury*
*not sure if people eat shrews but you never know
Barry?
Who was he........and shirty5 i know you have the answer.
However, this caused problems when people were asking for directions to get to the Lancashire town, with the police being called on a number of occasions.
"Can you tell me how I get to Rub You?"
"Could you assist me with getting to Rub You?"
"I would like to get to Rub You, can you help?"
It was decided to drop the 'o' and the other 'u' which were sent out on loan to Bournemouth (formerly known as Burnemoth).