Hollingworth Lake
Hollingworth Lake is a 130-acre reservoir at Smithy Bridge in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from the 1860s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carelesshx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Smithy Bridge railway station and Littleborough railway station.
Smithy Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: P.hogg, Public domain.
Smithy Bridge railway station serves the village of Smithy Bridge and Hollingworth Lake near Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. The station is on the Caldervale Line 12+3⁄4 miles north of Manchester Victoria on the way to Leeds.
Littleborough railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ian Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littleborough railway station serves the town of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the Calder Valley line 13¾ miles north of Manchester Victoria towards Halifax, Bradford Interchange and Leeds.
Whittaker Wood
Forest
Whittaker Wood is a woodland in Greater Manchester, England, near Littleborough. It covers a total area of 1.88 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.
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 the North West of England. Its Victorian era town hall is widely recognized as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country.
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.
Hollingworth Lake
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in the United Kingdom
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.63022° or 53° 37′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.09647° or 2° 5′ 47″ westElevation
623 feet (190 metres)Open location code
9C5VJWJ3+3COpenStreetMap ID
way 4699556OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
2646744Wikidata ID
Q3888942
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hollingworth Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hollingworth Lake (lanaw sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Hollingworth Lake”
- Dutch: “Hollingworth Lake”
- Esperanto: “Hollingworth”
- French: “Hollingworth Lake”
- Japanese: “ホリングワース湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hollingworth Lake”
- Swedish: “Hollingworth Lake”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hollingworth Lake”. Photo: Carelesshx, CC BY-SA 3.0.