Woolfold

Woolfold is a suburb in Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England. Woolfold is situated nearby to the quarter Woodhill, as well as near the suburb Brandlesholme.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elton High School and Burrs Country Park.

Elton High School

School

The Elton High School is a mixed secondary school located on Walshaw Road to the north-west of Bury town centre in Greater Manchester, England. The Elton High School was recognised as "Good" school with "Outstanding" features by Ofsted following inspection in 2009.

Burrs Country Park

Park

Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Burrs Country Park covers a 36 hectares site on the banks of the River Irwell, in the north of the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

Bury Transport Museum

Museum

Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bury Transport Museum is a transport museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, situated in the former Castlecroft Goods Warehouse, a Grade II listed building from 1846, on Castlecroft Road, with the main entrance from Bolton Street, BL9 0EY.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Walshaw and Bury.

Walshaw

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Walshaw is a village forming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. It is located to the south of Tottington and 2 miles northwest of Bury.

Bury

Photo: jolmartyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bury is a town and borough in Greater Manchester in the northwest of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. It’s a former textile-milling town, with a population in 2024 of 199,000.

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. Greenmount is situated 1½ miles northwest of Woolfold.

Woolfold

Type: Suburb
Category: locality
Location: Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.60223° or 53° 36′ 8″ north

Longitude

-2.31912° or 2° 19′ 9″ west

Elevation

367 feet (112 metres)

Open location code

9C5VJM2J+V9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 30844645

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

13270711

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