Heyheads

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buckton Castle and Mossley railway station.

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.

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.

Mossley Hollins High School

School

Mossley Hollins High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Mossley, in the borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester. The school's original building was opened in the 1960s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mossley and Carrbrook.

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.

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.

Heyrod

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Heyrod is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, between Stalybridge and Mossley. Historically in Lancashire, Heyrod was subsumed into the Municipal Borough of Stalybridge in 1881, a local government district which became part of the administrative county of Cheshire in 1889.

Heyheads

Type: Hamlet
Description: suburb in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Categories: suburb and locality
Location: Mossley, Tameside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.50964° or 53° 30′ 35″ north

Longitude

-2.02836° or 2° 1′ 42″ west

Open location code

9C5VGX5C+VM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1962011702

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

Wikidata ID

Q5749737

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