Watersheddings
Until 1998 Watersheddings was the site of a rugby league stadium which also housed a greyhound racing track.
Bacup /ˈbeɪkʌp/ is a town in Lancashire, England, in the South Pennines close to Lancashire's boundary with West Yorkshire. The town is in the Forest of Rossendale and the upper Irwell Valley, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Rawtenstall, 6.4 miles (10.3 km) north of Rochdale, and 21 miles (34 km) east of Preston. At the 2001 Census, Bacup had a population of 12,763.
Population: 13,047
Latitude: 53° 42' 12.10" N
Longitude: -2° 12' 2.52" W
Until 1998 Watersheddings was the site of a rugby league stadium which also housed a greyhound racing track.
The Victoria Arches are a series of bricked-up arches built in an embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester. They served as business premises, landing stages for Steam packet riverboats and as Second World War air-raid shelters.
The Upper Calder Valley lies in West Yorkshire in northern England, and covers the towns of Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, and Sowerby Bridge, as well as a number of smaller settlements such as Portsmouth, Cornholme, Walsden a…
The Summit Tunnel in England is one of the oldest railway tunnels in the world: it was built between 1838 and 1841 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway beneath the Pennines.
Rochdale Town F.C. are an English football club based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. They are members of Division One of the North West Counties League, and play their home matches at Castleton Sports Centre, in Castleton, Rochdale, which has a ca…
Radcliffe Tower is the only surviving part of a manor house in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester (grid reference SD79580751). It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Monument. The house was rebuilt in 1403 by James de Radcliffe, who was lord of …
The M66 is a motorway in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England.
The Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited was incorporated 23 January 1929, and became the world's largest spinner of cotton. It acquired 104 mills and closed about half to reduce capacity.
The King David High School located in Manchester, United Kingdom is a mixed, voluntary aided Jewish Orthodox academy school. The school has been awarded Specialist Maths and Computing College status. In 2007, over 850 pupils attended the school.
Holy Cross College is a Catholic Sixth Form College on Manchester Road in Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
Dobroyd Castle is an important historic building above the town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.
Denshaw is a village in Saddleworth—a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies by the source of the River Tame, high amongst the Pennines above the village of Delph, 4.6 miles (7.4 km) northeast of …
Cross Street Chapel is a Unitarian church in Manchester, England, famous in civic and national life for its contributions to piety and civil society. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organ…
Waterfoot is a small Rossendale mill-town at between Rawtenstall and Bacup in Lancashire where the B6238 road from Burnley meets the A681 road. It is where the River Whitwell meets the River Irwell.
Wardle (pop. 7,092) is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the South Pennines, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) east-southeast of Whitworth, 2.5 miles (4 km) north-northwest of Ro…
The River Brun is a river in eastern Lancashire.
Rawtenstall railway station serves the town of Rawtenstall in Lancashire, England, and is the northern terminus of the East Lancashire Railway.
Oldham Boro Football Club is an English association football club based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.