Hawkshaw
Hawkshaw is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it has a population of around 1,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: liz dawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hawkshaw Lane End” and “Hawkshaw, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary and Jumbles Reservoir.
Jumbles Reservoir
Reservoir
The Jumbles Reservoir is a heavily modified, high alkalinity, shallow reservoir in North West England. It lies in Jumbles Country Park, in the valley of Bradshaw Brook, partly in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, and partly in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire. Jumbles Reservoir is situated 1½ miles west of Hawkshaw.
Turton Tower
Photo: Austen Redman, CC BY 2.5.
Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade I listed building. Turton Tower is situated 2 miles west of Hawkshaw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Affetside and Greenmount.
Affetside
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Affetside is a village in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is in the Tottington ward of Bury Metropolitan Borough Council and the Bury North parliamentary constituency, in the West Pennine Moors.
Greenmount
Hamlet
Photo: Parkinpants, Public domain.
Greenmount is a village in Tottington in the West Pennine Moors, in the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England.
Edgworth
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edgworth is a village in the civil parish of North Turton, in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is between Broadhead Brook on the west and Quarlton Brook in the south east. Edgworth is situated 1½ miles northwest of Hawkshaw.
Hawkshaw
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.63169° or 53° 37′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.36582° or 2° 21′ 57″ westElevation
620 feet (189 metres)Open location code
9C5VJJJM+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 30844618OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Hawkshaw” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Hawkshaw, Greater Manchester”
- French: “Hawkshaw”
- Irish: “Hawkshaw”
- Polish: “Hawkshaw (Greater Manchester)”
- Polish: “Hawkshaw”
- Welsh: “Hawkshaw, Manceinion Fwyaf”
- Welsh: “Hawkshaw”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, Hawkshaw and Hawkshaw Wood.
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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 “Hawkshaw”. Photo: liz dawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.