New Mills is a town in Derbyshire, England, approximately 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Stockport and 15 miles (24 km) from Manchester. It lies at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Sett, close to the border of Cheshire. The town stands above the Torrs, a 70 feet (21 m) deep gorge, cut through Woodhead Hill Sandstone of the Carboniferous period. It is on the north-western edge of the Peak District, England's first national park. It has a population of approximately 10,000. New Mills can refer to the built-up area that includes Newtown and Low Leighton, or the civil parish that includes the villages and hamlets of Whitle, Thornsett, Hague Bar, Rowarth, Brookbottom, Gowhole, and most of Birch Vale.
Population: 9,114
Latitude: 53° 21' 57.31" N
Longitude: -1° 59' 59.50" W
Parrs Wood High School is a state comprehensive secondary school and sixth form situated in East Didsbury, Manchester, England, specifically, behind Parrs Wood Entertainment Complex off of Wilmslow Road. It educates young people through the ages of …
This is a list of the cotton and other textile mills in Manchester, England.
Dovestone Reservoir lies at the convergence of the valleys of the Greenfield and Chew Brooks above the village of Greenfield, on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester, England. The reservoir is on the edge of the Peak District National Park in the …
Buxton Opera House is in The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It is a 902-seat opera house that hosts the annual Buxton Festival and, from 1994 to 2013, the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among others, as well as pantomime at Chris…
Titan is a natural cavern near Castleton in the Derbyshire Peak District, and is the deepest shaft of any known cave in Britain, at 141.5 metres (464 ft). The existence of Titan was revealed in November 2006, following its discovery on 1 January 199…
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (7-foot (2.13 m) gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England.
New Mills Association Football Club ('The Millers') are an English football club based in New Mills, Derbyshire.
This list of mills in Stockport, lists textile factories that have existed in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
Stalybridge railway station serves Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. It lies on the Huddersfield Line, 7½ miles (12 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly and 8¼ miles (13 km) east of Manchester Victoria.
The Longdendale Bypass (also known as the A57/A628 Mottram-in-Longdendale, Hollingworth & Tintwistle Bypass) is a long-planned road scheme in England by the Highways Agency. The aim is to alleviate traffic congestion on the A57 road/A628 road/A616 r…
Guide Bridge railway station serves Guide Bridge, a part of Audenshaw, Tameside in Greater Manchester, England and is operated by Northern Rail.
Abbey Hey F.C. are an English association football club based in the Abbey Hey area of Gorton, Manchester. The club were founded in 1902 and were formerly known as Abbey Hey WMC.They have won the Manchester League on a number of occasions and curren…
The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England, one of the six that make up the Cheshire Ring.
Bower Fold is a football stadium in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England and is the home ground of Stalybridge Celtic. The stadium is notable for being the only active ground in the country where the pitch faces a perfect north alignment, an hon…
The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester in North West England.
The Speedwell Cavern is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England.
Heaton Chapel is an area in the northern part of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It borders the Manchester districts of Levenshulme to the north, the Stockport districts of Heaton Moor to the west, Reddish and Heaton Norris to the east and H…
Greenfield Reservoir is a reservoir in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, in the English Peak District. Lying within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, above the village of Green…