 About a mile from the centre of Bury is Burrs Country Park which covers an area once housing the mill complex of the Burr and Higher Woodhill cotton mills.Situated on both sides of the River Irwell, it is overlooked by Castlesteads, an Iron Age/Roman settlement and hill fort and one of only four Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Bury.The local public house, the Brown Cow, is one of the oldest buildings in Bury.