Mossley
Mossley is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, 3 miles south-east of Oldham and 9 miles east of Manchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,900 residents
- Description: town in Tameside, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Mossley, Greater Manchester” and “Mossley, Tameside”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mossley railway station and Buckton Castle.
Mossley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paul Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mossley railway station in Mossley, Greater Manchester, England, is on the Huddersfield Line 9.9 miles north-east of Manchester Victoria and is managed by Northern, which do not provide any services to or from this station.
Buckton Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Nevell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buckton Castle was a medieval enclosure castle near Carrbrook in Stalybridge, a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it was surrounded by a 2.8-metre-wide stone curtain wall and a ditch 10 metres wide and 6 metres deep.
Mossley Hollins High School
School
Mossley Hollins High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Mossley, in the borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester. The school's original building was opened in the 1960s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heyheads and Carrbrook.
Heyheads
Hamlet
Heyheads is the easternmost area of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. The area includes the 16th century Grade II listed Nos 1, 2 and 3 Moorgate Farmhouse and adjoining barn and shippon buildings.
Carrbrook
Village
Photo: Nev1, Public domain.
Carrbrook is a village east of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, the area still has many seventeenth and eighteenth-century buildings.
Heyrod
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heyrod is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, between Stalybridge and Mossley. Historically in Lancashire, Heyrod was subsumed into the Municipal Borough of Stalybridge in 1881, a local government district which became part of the administrative county of Cheshire in 1889.
Mossley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Mossley, Tameside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.51306° or 53° 30′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.03583° or 2° 2′ 9″ westPopulation
10,900Elevation
472 feet (144 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB OSYOpen location code
9C5VGX77+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 30000406OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Mossley” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Mossley”
- Basque: “Mossley”
- Bengali: “মোসলে”
- Cebuano: “Mossley”
- Chinese: “莫斯利”
- Chinese: “莫斯雷”
- Dutch: “Mossley”
- French: “Mossley”
- German: “Mossley”
- Gujarati: “મોસ્લી”
- Hungarian: “Mossley”
- Irish: “Mossley”
- Italian: “Mossley”
- Japanese: “モスレイ (テイムサイドTameside”
- Japanese: “モスレイ”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಸ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “모슬리”
- Ladin: “Mossley”
- Lithuanian: “Moslis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mossley”
- Persian: “موسلی”
- Polish: “Mossley”
- Portuguese: “Mossley”
- Romanian: “Mossley”
- Russian: “Моссли”
- South Azerbaijani: “موسلی”
- Spanish: “Mossley”
- Swedish: “Mossley”
- Tamil: “மோஸ்லே”
- Telugu: “మోస్లీ”
- Turkish: “Mossley”
- Urdu: “موسلے”
- Welsh: “Mossley”
- “Mossley”
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Highlights include King George Fields and Mossley Post Office.
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