Hollingworth

Hollingworth is a locality in Rochdale, England. Hollingworth is situated nearby to the village Smithy Bridge, as well as near the locality Little Clegg.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hollingworth Lake and Smithy Bridge railway station.

Hollingworth Lake

Lake

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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.

Smithy Bridge railway station

Railway station

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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

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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.

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

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Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in northwest England, 12 miles north of Manchester city centre. In 2021 it had a population of 111,000, with a similar number in the nearby small towns of Middleton, Milnrow, Wardle, Littleborough and Heywood that together comprise Rochdale Metropolitan Borough.

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

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

53.63232° or 53° 37′ 56″ north

Longitude

-2.10136° or 2° 6′ 5″ west

Elevation

577 feet (176 metres)

Open location code

9C5VJVJX+WF

GeoNames ID

13270614

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