Places to see in ( Middleton - UK )
Places to see in ( Middleton - UK )
Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk 5 miles south-southwest of Rochdale and 4.4 miles north-northeast of Manchester city centre. In 2001, Middleton had a population of 45,580, reducing to 42,972 at the 2011 Census. It lies on the northern edge of Manchester, with Blackley to the south and Moston to the south east.
Historically part of Lancashire, Middleton's name comes from it being the centre of several circumjacent settlements. It was an ecclesiastical parish of the hundred of Salford, ruled by aristocratic families. The Church of St Leonard is a Grade I listed building. The Flodden Window in the church's sanctuary is thought to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom, memorialising the archers of Middleton who fought at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
In 1770, Middleton was a village of twenty houses, but in the 18th and 19th centuries it grew into a thriving and populous seat of textile manufacture and it was granted borough status in 1886.
Langley in the north of the town was one of Manchester City Council's overspill council estates, whilst Alkrington in the south is a suburban area.
Although unmentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, Middleton is said to be of great antiquity; a community at Middleton is thought to have evolved outwards from a church that existed considerably earlier than the Norman conquest of England. The name Middleton first appears in 1194, and derives from the Old English middel-tūn, meaning middle farm or settlement, probably a reference to its central position between Rochdale and Manchester.
During the Middle Ages, Middleton was a centre of domestic flannel and woollen cloth production. The development of Middleton as a centre of commerce occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of the effect of the Industrial Revolution. Additional to this, Lord Suffield obtained a Royal Charter from King George III in 1791 to hold a weekly market and three annual summer fairs in Middleton. Suffield built a market house, warehouses and shambles in the town at his own expense.
Middleton stands on undulated land immediately north of the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester; Chadderton and Royton are close to the east. The town of Rochdale lies to the north-northeast. The town is supposed to have derived its name, Middle-town, from its situation midway between Manchester and Rochdale. It is situated on an ancient road between those places. Middleton town centre is around 100 feet (30 m) above sea level.
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Places to see in ( Denton - UK )
Places to see in ( Denton - UK )
Denton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, five miles east of Manchester city centre. Historically part of Lancashire, it had a population of 36,591 at the 2011 Census. Denton probably derives its name from Dane-town, an etymology supported by other place names in the area such as Danehead-bank and Daneditch-bourne. The word 'Dane' is itself derived from Anglo-Saxon denu, dene, daenland, meaning a valley. So literally Denton means valley town.
There is one main war memorial, or cenotaph, in Denton, located in Victoria Park. This memorial commemorates people from Denton and Haughton who served in two world wars. The names on the war memorial were collected from their relatives who wrote to the council with details of their loved ones who served in either war. The war memorial was unveiled on 23 July 1921. Figures from the Denton section of the Tameside council website, state that 3,500 Denton men served in the Great War (1914–1918), of that number, 369 people were killed.
The oldest church in Denton is St. Lawrence's. It is almost 500 years old, originally built in 1531. It is a listed Grade II* building. The church is also known locally as Th'owd Peg (the old peg) due to the fact, as a timber-framed building, it was constructed with wooden pegs rather than nails. It is more commonly known as the black and white church, because of its appearance. A local myth is also said to have a pirate buried within its grounds because of a grave stone marked with a skull and crossbones at its front door. In a more thorough investigation and article printed by Denton Local History Society (1995), it was found that the gravestone was actually a masonic gravestone belonging to a deceased Soldier named Samuel Bromley from the Royal Artillery. The magnificent Victorian St Anne's Church, Haughton, is a Grade I listed building, and is built in the Gothic Revival style.
One of Denton's claims to fame is that, along with Reddish South, it has the UK's least frequent train service, every Friday, in one direction, from Stockport to Stalybridge. There are bus links to Manchester city centre, Hyde, Ashton-under-Lyne and Stockport operated by Stagecoach. The M67 Denton Relief Road motorway was constructed, running east to west through Denton, between 1978 and 1981. Originally this was planned to be part of a motorway running from central Manchester to Sheffield. At its western end the M67 connects with the M60 Manchester Ring Road.
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map of North West England
North West England is one of the best and most popular of nine official regions of England and consists of the administrative counties of #1 ranked Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. North West England is bounded to the east by the Pennines and to the west by the Irish Sea. The region extends from the Scottish Borders in the north to the West Midlands region in the south. To its southwest is North Wales. Amongst the better known of the North West's physiographical features are the Lake District and the Cheshire Plain. The highest point in North West England (and the highest peak in England) is Scafell Pike, Cumbria, at a height of 3,209 feet (978 m).
Windermere is the largest natural lake in England, while Broad Crag Tarn on Broad Crag is England's highest lake. Wast Water is England's deepest lake, being 74 metres deep.
A mix of rural and urban landscape, two large conurbations, centred on Liverpool and Manchester, occupy much of the south of the region. The north of the region, comprising Cumbria and northern Lancashire, is largely rural, as is the far south which encompasses parts of the Cheshire Plain and Peak District.
The region includes parts of three National parks (all of the Lake District, and small parts of the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales) and three areas of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (all of Arnside and Silverdale and the Solway Coast, and almost all of the Forest of Bowland The North West is generally regarded as having the most average weather in the UK. Temperatures are generally close to the national average. Cumbria usually experiences the most severe weather, with high precipitation in the mountainous regions of the Lake District and Pennines. In winter, the most severe weather occurs in the more exposed and elevated areas of the North West, once again mainly the Lake District and Pennine areas.
Parts of the North West experienced a White Christmas in 2009, and again in 2010, where sleet and snow fell on December 25.
The A635 was closed for almost a month in January 2010 due to high amounts of snowfall.
Greater Manchester 2,629,400 2,016/km2 Manchester (510,700)
Blackburn town centre and Blackpool promenade
Preston and Chester city centres
Warrington, CH
Wigan, GM
Blackpool, LA
Chester, CH
Stockport, GM
Sale, GM
Bolton, GM
Preston, LA
Rochdale, GM
Blackburn, LA
Wigan, GM
St. Helens, ME
Wythenshawe, GM
Salford, GM
Population 70,000
Barrow-in-Furness town centre and Birkenhead town hall
Oldham, GM
Southport, ME
Birkenhead, ME
Bury, GM
Bootle, ME
Carlisle, CU
Northwich, CH
Burnley, LA
Barrow-in-Furness, CU
Crewe, CH
Population 50,000
Runcorn, CH
Widnes, CH
Wallasey, ME
Ellesmere Port, CH
Altrincham, GM
Macclesfield, CH
Crosby, ME
Leigh, GM
Population 30,000
Lancaster city centre
Accrington, LA
Lancaster, LA
Ashton-under-Lyne, GM
Middleton, GM
Lytham St Annes, LA
Urmston, GM
Kirkby, ME
Skelmersdale, LA
Eccles, GM
Stretford, GM
Denton, GM
Leyland, LA
Chadderton, GM
Morecambe, LA
Chorley, LA
Hyde, GM
Huyton, ME
Thornton-Cleveleys, LA
Prestwich, GM
Saddleworth, GM
Winsford, CH
Farnworth, GM
Population 20,000
Radcliffe, GM
Nelson, LA
Ashton-in-Makerfield, GM
Kendal, CU
Heywood, GM
Reddish, GM
Darwen, LA
Hindley, GM
Cheadle Hulme, GM
Fleetwood, LA
Congleton, CH
Swinton, GM
Workington, CU
South Turton, GM
Westhoughton, GM
Wilmslow, CH
Ormskirk, LA
Golborne, GM
Whitehaven, CU
Stalybridge, GM
Marple, GM
Whitefield, GM
Droylsden, GM
Penwortham, LA
Formby, ME
Litherland, ME
Newton-le-Willows, ME
Atherton, GM
Rawtenstall, LA
Royton, GM
Walkden, GM
Shaw and Crompton, GM
Failsworth, GM
Maghull, ME
Halewood, ME
Horwich, GM
Population 10,000
Alsager, CH
Bramhall, GM
Clitheroe, LA
Colne, LA
Dukinfield, GM
Haslingden, LA
Hazel Grove, GM
Heysham, LA
Irlam, GM
Lowton, GM
Maryport, CU
Moreton, ME
Nantwich, CH
Neston, CH
Pendlebury, GM
Penrith, CU
Poulton-le-Fylde, LA
Ramsbottom, GM
Romiley, GM
Sandbach, CH
Tyldesley, GM
Ulverston, CU
Upton, ME
Woodley, GM
Population 5,000
Frodsham, CH
Gatley, GM
Dalton-in-Furness, CU
Windermere, CU
Millom, CU
Cleator Moor, CU
Cockermouth, CU
Carnforth, LA
Metropolitan areas
See also: List of metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom
The five largest metropolitan areas in the North West are as follows:
Greater Manchester metropolitan area – 2,556,000
Liverpool/Birkenhead metropolitan area – 2,241,000
Blackburn/Burnley – 391,000
Preston – 354,000
Blackpool −304,000
Liverpool and Manchester are sometimes considered parts of a single large polynuclear metropolitan area, or megalopolis but are usually treated as separate metropolitan areas. In some studies, part of Wigan in Greater Manchester is considered part of the Liverpool metropolitan area. #northwestengland #nwengland #northwestenglandmap
Places to see in ( Hyde - UK )
Places to see in ( Hyde - UK )
Hyde is a town in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, it is 5 miles northeast of Stockport, 6 miles west of Glossop and 7 miles east of Manchester. The population of Hyde increased due to the success of the cotton mills during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at one stage there were 40 working mills. By 1872 only 27 remained, half of the remaining mills closed between 1921 and 1939 and there is only one working mill in the town today. There were many mill owning families, including the Sidebotham, Hibbert and Horsfield families.
St George's Church was built in 1832 as a chapel of ease to St Mary's, Stockport. It was built at the instigation of John Hyde Clarke of Hyde Hall and was the first Church of England place of worship in the town. St George's became the parish church of part of Hyde township in 1842. Later additions include the lychgate, boathouse by the canal, hearse house, parish rooms and numerous vicarages. The church has a 110-foot (34 m) tower housing eight bells and a clock.
The Peak Forest Canal was constructed through Hyde from Ashton-under-Lyne to Woodley, Romiley and Marple. Captain Clarke's Bridge, originally named Wood End Canal Bridge is situated at the end of Woodend Lane. The bridge was erected before Captain Clarke rose to prominence and therefore probably became known as Captain Clarke's Bridge after he retired and resided there.
Hyde was incorporated as a municipal borough of Cheshire in 1881, which covered the parishes of Hyde, Godley and Newton, along with part of Compstall. Hyde Town Hall dominates the market place area. The large bell in the clocktower is known as Owd Joss (Old Josh), named after Joshua Bradley, a former poor child worker in the mills. The clock chimes the Westminster Quarters.
Werneth Low Country Park is the location of the Hyde War Memorial. The memorial is owned by a trust which raised funds from Hyde residents after the Great War to create a permanent memorial to those Hyde residents who died in that conflict. The memorial contains 710 names. Hyde is separated from Denton by the River Tame, a tributary of the River Mersey. There are several areas and suburbs in Hyde, these include, Gee Cross, Newton, Hattersley, Godley, Flowery Field, Kingston, Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Broadbottom.
Hyde is served by six railway stations, Hyde Central and Hyde North stations are on the Manchester Piccadilly - Romiley - Rose Hill 'Hyde Loop' line. Flowery Field, Newton (for Hyde), Godley and Hattersley stations are on the electrified Piccadilly - Glossop - Hadfield line. Hyde is served by the M67 motorway, a feeder to the M60, the orbital motorway for Manchester, which is connected to many other motorways that serve across the country. Hyde also has Hyde bus station, with services into Manchester and other surrounding areas, including Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham.
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Oakwood Mill, Millbrook, Stalybridge.
Oackwood Mill in Millbrook, Stalybride
Grade: II
Date Listed: 12 November 1991
English Heritage Building ID: 358712
OS Grid Reference: SJ9783699667
OS Grid Coordinates: 397836, 399667
Latitude/Longitude: 53.4937, -2.0341
Listing NGR: SJ9783699667
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