BURY, a parish in the
hundred of HURSTINGSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 1 mile (S.)
from Ramsey, containing 337 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of George
Maule, Esq. The church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, is the eastern part of
a large crucifom edifice, and exhibits a mixture of Norman and early English
architecture, with some interesting specimens of both; the entrance to the
chancel from the nave is under a carved wooden screen. Bury formed part of
the possessions of Ramsey abbey; and there is a strong stone bridge of two
arches over a small brook, which is supposed to have been built by one of
the abbots.
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