Wardle
Wardle is a village near Littleborough within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the South Pennines, 1.8 miles east-southeast of Whitworth, 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rochdale and 12 miles north-northeast of the city of Manchester.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 7,250 residents
- Description: village in Greater Manchester, UK
- Also known as: “Wardle, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wardle Library and Watergrove Reservoir.
Watergrove Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: P.hogg, Public domain.
Watergrove Reservoir is a reservoir close to Wardle in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, within Greater Manchester, England. Rochdale Corporation chose Watergrove as a suitable site to build a large reservoir largely to a prolonged drought in the 1930s, resulting in water regularly being bought from Oldham.
Wardle Academy
School
Wardle Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Wardle, Greater Manchester, England. It was founded in September 1977.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smithy Bridge and Littleborough.
Smithy Bridge
Village
Photo: Paul Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smithy Bridge is a suburb of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Hollingworth Lake Country Park is close by.
Littleborough
Town
Photo: Kram4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in northwest England, 12 miles north of Manchester city centre. In 2021 it had a population of 111,000, with a similar number in the nearby small towns of Middleton, Milnrow, Wardle, Littleborough and Heywood that together comprise Rochdale Metropolitan Borough. Littleborough is situated 1½ miles east of Wardle.
Belfield
Suburb
Belfield is an area within Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the confluence of the River Beal and River Roch, 1.3 miles east-northeast of Rochdale's town centre. Belfield is situated 2 miles south of Wardle.
Wardle
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Rochdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.64896° or 53° 38′ 56″ northLongitude
-2.1295° or 2° 7′ 46″ westPopulation
7,250Elevation
656 feet (200 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 29884332OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Wardle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wardle (Manchester Handia)”
- Basque: “Wardle”
- Bengali: “ওয়ার্ডলে”
- Cebuano: “Wardle”
- Chinese: “瓦杜”
- Dutch: “Wardle, Greater Manchester”
- French: “Wardle”
- German: “Wardle”
- Gujarati: “વાર્ડેલ”
- Irish: “Wardle”
- Japanese: “ワードル”
- Kannada: “ವಾರ್ಡ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “워들, 그레이터 맨체스터”
- Korean: “워들”
- Lithuanian: “Vordlis”
- Persian: “وارد، گریتر منچستر”
- Polish: “Wardle”
- Portuguese: “Wardle”
- Russian: “Уордл”
- Spanish: “Wardle”
- Swedish: “Wardle, Greater Manchester”
- Swedish: “Wardle”
- Tamil: “வார்டலே”
- Telugu: “వార్డ్లే”
- Urdu: “واردلی”
- Welsh: “Wardle, Manceinion Fwyaf”
- Welsh: “Wardle”
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Highlights include St James‘ Church of England Primary School and Wardle Village Church.
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