Rossendale Forest
The Rossendale Forest is the area of hills in Lancashire, England between the Manchester basin and the upper Ribble valley.
Little Lever is a large village within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is 2.4 miles (3.9 km) southeast of Bolton, 1.9 miles (3.1 km) west of Radcliffe and 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of Bury. During the 19th century the population was employed in cotton mills, paper mills, bleach works, terracotta works, a rope works and in numerous collieries.
Population: 11,329
Latitude: 53° 33' 48.46" N
Longitude: -2° 22' 40.91" W
The Rossendale Forest is the area of hills in Lancashire, England between the Manchester basin and the upper Ribble valley.
Rossendale was a parliamentary constituency in the Lancashire, England. Created in 1885, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. When…
Rochdale Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (grid reference SD89121286). It was built in the period shortly after the Norman conquest of England. The motte is 100 feet (30 m) at the base; the bailey is rect…
The River Blakewater is a river running through Lancashire, giving its name to the town of Blackburn.
Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington, England. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve. It covers an area of 210.5 acres (85.2 ha) and is one of the last remaining fragments of the r…
The Richard Goodall Gallery is a contemporary fine art, photography and rock poster gallery based in Manchester, England. They have been in existence since 2000. In 2007 a second location was added on High Street in Manchester focused on contemporar…
Red Moss is a wetland mossland in Greater Manchester, located south of Horwich and east of Blackrod. (Grid Reference SD635104). This is a national Site of Special Scientific Interest in the United Kingdom, due to its biodiversity and undisturbed cha…
The Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Patricroft, was an engineering factory was classified as a Medium Machine Shop.
Prestwich Arts College is a comprehensive school in Prestwich, Bury, England. The current head teacher is Chris Hornby. He has been the head teacher since Easter 2013. Geoff Barlow retired after many years at the school at Easter 2013, passing over …
Plodder Lane railway station served the southern part of Bolton and the western part of Farnworth; it was in the Highfield district of the latter town, on the southern side of a road named Plodder Lane, the present B6199. It was on the London and No…
Pilot Mill, Bury is a four-storey cotton spinning mill in Bury, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1905. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. Production finished, it survived and as o…
Philips Park lies in the valley of the River Medlock, in the lower part of Clayton, a district of Manchester, England.
Alexander Petrie and Co was a company that manufactured stationary steam engines. It was based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester in England. The company did general millwrighting, producing some steam engines during the 19th century.
Pendleton Bridge railway station was a railway station in Pendleton, Salford built on the Manchester and Bolton Railway, between Salford and Clifton Junction. The station was accessed from Station Street, just west of Broughton Road (A576).
Partington railway station was situated on the Cheshire Lines Committee route between Warrington and Stockport.
Old Moat is an electoral district or ward in the south of the City of Manchester, England. Voters from this ward elect three councillors to Manchester City Council. Currently all three councillors, Andrew Fender, Suzannah Reeves and Jeff Smith are m…
Oasis Academy MediaCityUK is an academy in Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England.
Northern Moor Metrolink station is a station for Phase 3b of the Manchester Metrolink.