Gorse Hall was the name given to two large houses in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, on a hill bordering Dukinfield, with 35 acres of woodland, and views of the Cheshire Plain and the Pennine Hills.

Stalybridge railway station

Railway station

Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.

Stalybridge railway station serves the town of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line, 7+1⁄2 miles east of Manchester Piccadilly and 8+1⁄4 miles east of Manchester Victoria. The station is managed by TransPennine Express.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Matley and Stalybridge.

Matley

Suburb

Photo: Gerald England, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Matley is a semi-rural area in the Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It was formerly a civil parish in Cheshire between 1866 and 1936, when the parish was abolished and the area divided between Dukinfield, Hyde, Longdendale and Stalybridge.

Stalybridge

Town

Stalybridge is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 26,830. Historically divided between Cheshire and Lancashire, it is 8 miles east of Manchester and 6 miles north-west of Glossop.

Millbrook

Village

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Millbrook is a village near Stalybridge, northwest England. It is part of the Stalybridge South ward of Tameside metropolitan borough. It also played a huge part of the industrial revolution, as the name suggests, several cotton mills once existed, in and around the village, Bottomleys mill was in one of the first ever steam driven mills.

Woodlands

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Tameside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.47294° or 53° 28′ 23″ north

Longitude

-2.04083° or 2° 2′ 27″ west

Elevation

748 feet (228 metres)

Open location code

9C5VFXF5+5M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 30000414

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13266374

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