Fox Platt

Fox Platt is a locality in Mossley, Tameside, England. Fox Platt is situated nearby to the locality Mossley Brow, as well as near the hamlet Mossley Cross.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mossley railway station and Hartshead Pike.

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.

Hartshead Pike

Peak

Photo: RandomDan, Public domain.

Hartshead Pike is a hill in Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, and its name is associated with the monument on its summit. It overlooks Ashton-under-Lyne, Mossley, Saddleworth, Lees and Oldham.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mossley and Heyheads.

Mossley

Town

Photo: G-Man, Public domain.

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.

Heyheads

Hamlet

Heyheads is the easternmost area of Stalybridge, in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The area includes the late 17th-century and 18th-century Grade II listed Nos.

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.

Fox Platt

Type: Locality
Location: Mossley, Tameside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.5147° or 53° 30′ 53″ north

Longitude

-2.04581° or 2° 2′ 45″ west

Elevation

666 feet (203 metres)

Open location code

9C5VGX73+VM

GeoNames ID

13270327

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Localities in the Area

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