Rossendale
The Rossendale Valley is a borough in Lancashire, consisting of a number of small towns and villages including Haslingden, Rawtenstall, Bacup, Waterfoot and 1 Acre. It lies within the West Pennine Moors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 67,400 residents
- Description: district with borough status in Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Borough of Rossendale” and “Rossendale District”
- Postal code: BB4
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Whitaker and Hail Storm Hill.
Hail Storm Hill
Peak
Photo: michael ely, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hail Storm Hill, also known as Cowpe Moss, is the highest point of the Rossendale Valley, England, an area of moorland and hill country situated between the West Pennine Moors and the South Pennines.
Rawtenstall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paul Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rawtenstall railway station serves the town of Rawtenstall, in Lancashire, England; it is the northern terminus of the heritage East Lancashire Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rawtenstall and Haslingden.
Rawtenstall
Town
The Rossendale Valley is a borough in Lancashire, consisting of a number of small towns and villages including Haslingden, Rawtenstall, Bacup, Waterfoot and 1 Acre. It lies within the West Pennine Moors.
Haslingden
Town
Photo: Matthew Hartley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is 16 miles north of Manchester. The name means 'valley of the hazels' or 'valley growing with hazels'.
Ramsbottom
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bury is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. Bury is a former mill town known for manufacturing textiles.
Rossendale
- Categories: non-metropolitan district and borough in the United Kingdom
- Location: Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Rossendale” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “রোজেনডেল”
- Bulgarian: “Росендале”
- Cebuano: “Rossendale District (distrito sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Rossendale District”
- Cebuano: “Rossendale”
- Chinese: “Rossendale”
- Chinese: “罗森代尔”
- Chinese: “罗森代尔市”
- Chinese: “罗森戴尔”
- Chinese: “羅森代爾”
- Chinese: “羅森戴爾”
- Chinese: “羅燊地”
- Dutch: “Rossendale”
- French: “Borough de Rossendale”
- French: “Rossendale”
- German: “Rossendale”
- Gujarati: “રોસેન્ડેલ”
- Irish: “Rossendale”
- Italian: “Rossendale”
- Japanese: “ロセンデール”
- Japanese: “ロッセンデール”
- Kannada: “ರೋಸೆಂಡೇಲ್”
- Korean: “로선데일”
- Lithuanian: “Rosendeilas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rossendale”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rossendale”
- Norwegian: “Rossendale”
- Polish: “Rossendale”
- Portuguese: “Rossendale”
- Romanian: “Rossendale”
- Russian: “Россендейл”
- Spanish: “Rossendale”
- Swedish: “Borough of Rossendale”
- Swedish: “Rossendale District (distrikt i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Rossendale”
- Tamil: “ரோஸ்ஸெண்டலே”
- Telugu: “రోసంన్డేల్”
- Turkish: “Rossendale”
- Urdu: “راسینڈئل”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Rossendale”
- “Rossendale”
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