Touchstones Rochdale

Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café forming part of the Central Library, Museum and Art Gallery in , Greater Manchester, England.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art gallery, museum and local studies library in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Local Studies Library - Touchstones”, “Rochdale Central Library, Museum And Art Gallery”, “Rochdale Local Studies and Archive”, and “Touchstones”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Rochdale Sixth Form College and Rochdale Town Hall.

College
is a Sixth Form College opened in September 2010. The Sixth Form College campus is situated next to Hopwood Hall College in , , England, forming an educational quarter in the town. is situated 500 feet northwest of Touchstones Rochdale.

Town hall
Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
is a Victorian-era municipal building in , , England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. is situated 730 feet east of Touchstones Rochdale.

Monument
Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in , Greater Manchester, in the north west of England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is one of seven memorials in England based on his in London and one of his more ambitious designs. is situated 660 feet northeast of Touchstones Rochdale.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rochdale and Belfield.

Photo: G-13114, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in 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 Metropolitan Borough.

Suburb
is an area within , in , England. It lies at the confluence of the River Beal and , 1.3 miles east-northeast of Rochdale's town centre.

Town
Photo: Andrewlee1967, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town within the , in , England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, and forms a continuous urban area with . is situated 2 miles east of Touchstones Rochdale.

Touchstones Rochdale

Latitude
53.61511° or 53° 36′ 54″ north
Longitude
-2.16209° or 2° 9′ 44″ west
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
9C5VJR8Q+25
Open­Street­Map ID
way 247043990
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q7828737
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Touchstones Rochdale” goes by many names.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Broadfield Community Primary School and Broadfield Park.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Lancashire Dialect Poets Monument and John Bright Statue.

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