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The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. Its largest town is Rochdale and the wider borough covers other outlying towns and villages, including Heywood, Littleborough, Middleton & Milnrow. It is the ninth-largest district by population in Greater Manchester with a population of 226,992 in ...
Accordingly, the County Borough of Rochdale came into existence in 1889, with the powers of both a borough and a county council. Rochdale remained within Lancashire for certain purposes such as lieutenancy and administration of justice. In 1900 the county borough absorbed the bulk of the neighbouring Castleton Urban District by mutual agreement ...
Rochdale (/ ˈ r ɒ tʃ d eɪ l / ROTCH-dayl) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. [2] In the 2021 Census, the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wider borough.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Ashworth is first recorded in 1180-90 when it was a holding of the Lord of Middleton. In c1349, the Ashworth heiress Maud married Hugh of Holt, and the Holt family held Ashworth until c1700. By 1767, it was in the ownership of the Egerton family. [2]
County Borough of Rochdale (1856–1974), former local government district of Lancashire, covering just the town of Rochdale Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Borough of Rochdale .
Robert Chadwick – American politician; Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1881 to 1888 [6]; Steve Clayton – Rochdale-born author and drummer in Tractor; co-founder with Chris Hewitt and Jim Milne of Tractor Sound Studios, marked in Heywood by a blue plaque; his albums under the name Tractor and his book under the name Stephen Clayton received critical acclaim
Norden is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It was historically part of Lancashire until 1974. It is situated on the western outskirts of the town of Rochdale. There is a Rochdale Ward with the same name. Based on the 2021 Census, this ward had a population of 9,733. [1]
Wardle (/ ˈ w ɔː r d əl /; pop. 7,092) is a village near Littleborough within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. [1] It lies amongst the foothills of the South Pennines, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) east-southeast of Whitworth, 2.5 miles (4 km) north-northwest of Rochdale and 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of the city of Manchester.