Ramsbottom

城市概覽

Bury grew rapidly from the 18th century as a textile town, at first for wool but later chiefly for cotton. Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) was born here to a wealthy textile family, and founded the modern police force and served as British prime minister. The lot of Bury's mill workers was less fortunate, as the 19th-century town became overcrowded, squalid and rife with disease. Still they made a living, until the mid 20th century when the cotton industry collapsed, and much of the town became derelict. Historically within Lancashire, in 1974 Bury became part of Greater Manchester, and is nowadays primarily a commuter town. The borough also includes the more affluent suburbs of Prestwich and Whitefield (with long-established Jewish populations), Radcliffe, and (the most scenic) Ramsbottom on the edge of the Pennines. Bury is indelibly linked to the black pudding, produced and consumed here in industrial quantities, and hurled over record-breaking distances at an annual contest in Ramsbottom.

如何抵達

See Manchester#Get_in for long-distance travel options. From Manchester Airport (MAN IATA) take the train or bus to Piccadilly then Bus 135 or tram to Bury.

By tram Bury no longer has mainline trains, but it's a terminus of the Metrolink trams, green and yellow lines. These run downtown via Whitefield and Prestwich to Manchester Victoria station; the yellow line forks south to Piccadilly station, while the green line crosses city centre westwards and out to Old Trafford, Stretford, Sale and Altrincham. Change in city centre for the other lines to Salford Quays, Media City and Eccles, to Etihad Stadium and Ashton-under-Lyne, to Imperial War Museum and Trafford Centre (this line opened in Match 2020), to Wythenshawe and the airport, and to East Didsbury. Trams normally run every 10 min or so between 6AM and 11:30PM. See TGM Metrolink website for fare deals, service updates and travel planner; you must buy your ticket before boarding. 1 Bury Interchange, off Haymarket Street, is in Fare Zone 4, so a ride to city centre costs £4.60 single. The same ticket would actually take you all the way to the airport, 90 min.

By bus

First Manchester Bus 135 runs between Manchester Piccadilly and Bury every 10 min or so, taking 50 min. It also operates as a night bus late on Friday and Saturday. Bus 471 bus runs from Bolton, taking 30 min.

By car Bury lies at the junction of the A56 and A58. From the M60, exit J17 to join the A56 (Manchester Road/Bury New Road). From the M66, exit J2 to join the A58 (Bolton Road). There is plenty of parking available in and around Bury. Prices vary, according to the type of parking offered (e.g. private, council-run, multi-story, on-street) but they are pretty reasonable compared to city prices. Free parking is available for Metrolink users at most stops, so it may be an idea to leave the car and hop-on a tram for the day instead.

當地交通

See Manchester#Get_around for ticket deals and passes for the bus & tram network.

By foot Being a small town, most places in Bury are within walking distance (i.e. it will take you less than 20 min to walk from one side of the town to the other). If you are planning on venturing a little further out of the centre, then a bus may be useful.

By bicycle There are many cycle lanes throughout Bury. For cycling enthusiasts, the TFGM website provides information on a few scenic routes around the more 'rural' outskirts. The National Cycle Route 6 Passes through Bury, continuing along the old railway lines to Greenmount and Ramsbottom

By bus Bus services in the Bury area: To Bolton: 471 via Breightmet, 480 via Greenmount, 511 via Ainsworth, 524 via Radcliffe To Rochdale: 467/468 via Fairfield Hospital, 471 via Heywood To Ramsbottom: 472 via Walmersley & 474 via Holcombe Brook (Circular route), B1 via Summerseat To Manchester: 97 via Unsworth, 98 via Radcliffe, 135 via Whitefield, 163 via Middleton To Farnworth: 512 via Ainsworth, 513 via Radcliffe Other Buses: 94 to NMGH, 95 to Salford, 469 to Tottington, 481 to Blackburn, 483 to Burnley, B2 to Nangreves, B3 to Norden, B4 to Hopwood

By taxi Private-hire taxis and black cabs are available within and around Bury. Private hire taxis cannot be hailed, they must be booked either in person from a taxi rank, or over the phone, or else the car's insurance is void. Prices on private hire taxis are quite reasonable and if there is more than one person travelling short distances, they often end up being cheaper than the equivalent bus fares.

必看景點

1 Church of St Mary the Virgin, The Rock, Bury BL9 0AH. Anglican parish church on a high point just north of town centre. The previous 16th-century church was replaced in two stages, so the present spire dates from 1842 and the rest from 1876. Note the hammerbeam and tiebeam roof, mosaics, and stain-glass windows. It's a regimental church of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and in 2013 the military funeral of the murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby was held here. (updated Aug 2019) 2 Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Moss St, Bury BL9 0DR. Tu-F 10AM-5PM, Sa 10AM-4:30PM. Small but impressive collection of pre-Raphaelite and neoclassical painting, plus new sculpture centre, and various exhibitions. Big names include JMW Turner's Calais Sands, Sir Edwin Landseer's The Random Shot, and John Constable's Hampstead Heath. Free. (updated Aug 2019) 3 Radcliffe is a village two miles south of Bury, on the same tram route. It's post-industrial and run-down, but see the 14th- to 15th-century Church of St Mary (Anglican) and the crumbling remnants of 15th-century Radcliffe Tower. 4 Ramsbottom is a well-preserved mill village six miles north of Bury, hemmed in by the steep Pennine slopes, where streams surged down to power the mills. Its 19th-century Grant family may have been the model for the Cheeryble brothers in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. They practised a rapaciously efficient "Truck System": employees were not paid in cash but in tokens that could only be spent on beer in the company-owned pub.

體驗活動

1 The Met, Market St BL9 0BW (within Mill Gate shopping centre), ☏ +44 161 761-2216. This small space hosts theatre and comedy, but is mostly a live music venue. (updated Jan 2020) 2 Burrs Country Park is a park and caravan site on the riverside two miles north of town. It has canoeing, kayaking, angling, other water activities, climbing, ropes, adventure playground and obstacle course. Steam trains of the East Lancashire Railway chuff through. Irwell Sculpture Trail is a 30 miles (50 km) in length footpath from The Quays to Bacup dotted with large sculptures. On the section around Bury find Trinity, Our Seats Are Almost Touching, the Outwood Colliery group, Nailing Home, the barge in the bulrushes, As if I Were a River, Seek and You Will Find, In the Picture, Remnant Kings, Whispering Wall, Gateway, Willow Tree, Bocholt Tree, and Logarhythms. 3 Peel Monument on Harcles (or Holcombe) Hill commemorates Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850); the 39 m (128 ft) tower has a viewing platform