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 Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rochdale Sixth Form College and Rochdale Town Hall.
Rochdale Sixth Form College
College
Rochdale Sixth Form College is a Sixth Form College opened in September 2010. The Sixth Form College campus is situated next to Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, forming an educational quarter in the town. Rochdale Sixth Form College is situated 500 feet northwest of Touchstones Rochdale.
Rochdale Town Hall
Town hall
Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, 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. Rochdale Town Hall is situated 730 feet east of Touchstones Rochdale.
Rochdale Cenotaph
Monument
Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is one of seven memorials in England based on his Cenotaph in London and one of his more ambitious designs. Rochdale Cenotaph is situated 660 feet northeast of Touchstones Rochdale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rochdale and Belfield.
Rochdale
Photo: G-13114, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in the North West of England. Its Victorian era town hall is widely recognized as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country.
Belfield
Suburb
Belfield is an area within Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the confluence of the River Beal and River Roch, 1.3 miles east-northeast of Rochdale's town centre.
Milnrow
Town
Photo: Andrewlee1967, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Milnrow is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, and forms a continuous urban area with Rochdale. Milnrow is situated 2 miles east of Touchstones Rochdale.
Touchstones Rochdale
- Categories: library building, art museum, public library, local authority museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Rochdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.61511° or 53° 36′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.16209° or 2° 9′ 44″ westOpen location code
9C5VJR8Q+25OpenStreetMap ID
way 247043990OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q7828737
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Touchstones Rochdale” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Touchstones Rochdale”
- French: “Touchstones Rochdale”
- German: “Touchstones Rochdale”
- Portuguese: “Touchstones Rochdale”
- Russian: “Точстоунс Рочдейл”
- Welsh: “Touchstones Rochdale”
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