Peel Monument, Bury

Name: Peel Monument
Address: Harcles Hill, Bury, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Bury

Top attraction, View point, Memorial

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Facts and practical information

The memorial tower to Sir Robert Peel, high above Ramsbottom was planned and erected at the same time as Bury was preparing its statue to the then recently deceased statesman who was born in Bury. ()

Coordinates: 53°38'37"N, 2°20'17"W

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Harcles HillBury United Kingdom

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Day trips

Peel Monument – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Clarence Park, Musbury Tor, Turton Tower, Bury Transport Museum.

3.4 miSE
Park
Clarence Park, Bury
86 min walk • Clarence Park is a Green Flag awarded public park located in Bury, Greater Manchester. It is the largest urban park in the borough, and was opened to the public in 1888.
2.8 miN
Mountain
Musbury Tor, Helmshore
71 min walk • Musbury Tor or Tor Hill is a flat-topped hill in south-east Lancashire, England. It overlooks the village of Helmshore and separates Alden Valley to its south and Musbury Valley to its north.
3 miW
Tower, Historical place
Turton Tower, Bolton
77 min walk • Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a grade I listed building.
3.7 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum
Bury Transport Museum, Bury
95 min walk • Bury Transport Museum is a transport museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, situated in the former Castlecroft Goods Warehouse, a Grade II listed building from 1846, on Castlecroft Road, with the main entrance from Bolton Street, BL9 0EY.
3.2 miN
Specialty museum, Museum, Fashion museum
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rossendale
81 min walk • Helmshore Mills are two mills built on the River Ogden in Helmshore, Lancashire. Higher Mill was built in 1796 for William Turner, and Whitaker's Mill was built in the 1820s by the Turner family. In their early life they alternated between working wool and cotton.
3.8 miSE
Pub, Memorial
Peel Memorial, Bury
98 min walk • The Peel Memorial is a public statue by Edward Hodges Baily, a nineteenth-century British artist best known for his sculpture of Nelson on Nelson's Column. It is located in the centre of Bury, Greater Manchester.
3.8 miSE
Church
Bury Parish Church, Bury
97 min walk • The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is located at the highest point in the town centre of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
3 miS
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
Christ Church, Bury
77 min walk • Christ Church is a church in Walshaw, Greater Manchester, England, and is a Grade II* listed building. Designed in the Gothic Revival style by Lawrence Booth in 1888, the building was funded by Rev John Gorrell Haworth and Miss Nancy Haworth, and took four years to complete.
3.7 miSW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church, Gothic architecture
St Maxentius' Church, Bolton
94 min walk • St Maxentius' Church is in Bradshaw, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Walmsley, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester.
2.8 miSW
Park
Jumbles Country Park, Bolton
73 min walk • Jumbles Country Park is a country park in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It lies on the southern edge of the West Pennine Moors. It was opened on 11 March 1971 by Queen Elizabeth II. The park is now owned and managed by United Utilities.
2.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Jumbles Reservoir
75 min walk • The Jumbles Reservoir is a heavily modified, high alkalinity, shallow reservoir in North West England. It lies in Jumbles Country Park, in the valley of Bradshaw Brook, partly in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, and partly in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire.