Scowcroft Lock

Scowcroft Lock is a lock gate in Oldham, England. Scowcroft Lock is situated nearby to Th‘ Iron Donger Bridge, as well as near the zoo Lancaster Park & Animal Farm.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mills Hill railway station and St Michael’s Church.

Mills Hill railway station

Railway station

Photo: Mikey, CC BY 2.0.

Mills Hill railway station is in the Mills Hill area of Middleton in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. The station is 5¾ miles north of Manchester Victoria on the Caldervale Line. Mills Hill railway station is situated 1,900 feet south of Scowcroft Lock.

St Michael's Church is in Townley Street, Middleton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Heywood and Middleton, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester. St Michael’s Church is situated 1 mile southwest of Scowcroft Lock.

North Chadderton School

School

North Chadderton School is a mixed gender secondary school and sixth form, located in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. North Chadderton School is situated 1 mile east of Scowcroft Lock.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middleton Junction and Middleton.

Middleton Junction

Suburb

Middleton Junction is an industrial and residential district lying on the common border of Middleton in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale and Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Middleton

Town

Photo: Alan Cottam (artaddict2), CC BY-SA 2.0.

Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the river Irk, 5 miles south-west of Rochdale and 5 miles north-east of Manchester, with Blackley to the south and Moston to the south-east.

Stock Brook

Quarter

Stock Brook is a residential and industrial area in the town of Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is contiguous with Chadderton's town centre area and with Nimble Nook, Cowhill and Nordens.

Scowcroft Lock

Type: Lock gate
Category: transportation
Location: Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.55614° or 53° 33′ 22″ north

Longitude

-2.17228° or 2° 10′ 20″ west

Open location code

9C5VHR4H+F3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 30877266

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=lock_gate

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