Helmshore
Helmshore is a village in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England, south of Haslingden between the A56 and the B6235, 16 miles north of Manchester. The population at the 2011 census was 5,805.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,810 residents
- Description: village in Lancashire, UK
- Also known as: “Helmshore, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Helmshore Viaduct.
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
Museum
Photo: robert wade, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helmshore Mills are two mills built on the River Ogden in Helmshore, Lancashire. Higher Mill was built in 1789 for William Turner, and Whitaker's Mill was built in the 1820s by the Turner family.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Irwell Vale and Haslingden.
Irwell Vale
Hamlet
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Irwell Vale is a village within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, in North West England. which lies at the confluence of the River Ogden and River Irwell.
Haslingden
Town
Photo: Matthew Hartley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is 16 miles north of Manchester. The name means 'valley of the hazels' or 'valley growing with hazels'.
Haslingden Grane
Hamlet
Haslingden Grane is the glaciated upper portion of the valley of the River Ogden, which lies west of Haslingden and is in the north east section of the West Pennine Moors. Haslingden Grane is situated 2 miles northwest of Helmshore.
Helmshore
- Category: locality
- Location: Rossendale, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.68878° or 53° 41′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.32858° or 2° 19′ 43″ westPopulation
5,810Elevation
581 feet (177 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HSOOpen location code
9C5VMMQC+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 30099997OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Helmshore” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “赫尔姆肖尔”
- Chinese: “赫爾姆肖爾”
- Dutch: “Helmshore”
- French: “Helmshore”
- Irish: “Helmshore”
- Japanese: “ヘルムショア”
- Polish: “Helmshore”
- Welsh: “Helmshore”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Veronica’s and Helmshore Post Office.
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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 “Helmshore”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.