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Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. [1] The population at the 2011 census was 17,872. [2]Historically in Lancashire, it is on the River Irwell in the West Pennine Moors, [3] [4] 3.9 miles (6.3 km) northwest of Bury, and 12 miles (19 km) of Manchester.
The borough is centred around the town of Bury but also includes the other towns of Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. [5] Bury bounds the Lancashire districts of Rossendale and Blackburn with Darwen to the north. With a population of 194,606 in 2022, it is the smallest borough in Greater Manchester. [3]
The line through Ramsbottom had initially been constructed by the Manchester, Bury and Rossendale Railway, authorised on 4 July 1844, but that company was absorbed by the East Lancashire Railway on 21 July 1845. The line was extended by the ELR from Stubbins Junction, just north of Ramsbottom, to Accrington on 18 September 1848.
Bury Bolton Street railway station, first opened in 1846 and substantially rebuilt in the 1880s and again in the 1950s, is now home to the East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway which serves Heywood, Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall but does not provide a regular commuter service. The station is the original railway station of Bury and was a ...
Edenfield is a village within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England.Lying on the River Irwell, it is around 1.25 miles (2.0 km) north of Ramsbottom, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Rawtenstall, and 6.0 miles (9.7 km) west of Norden, and has a total population of 2,080, [1] reducing to 2,053 at the 2011 census.
The Peel Monument at Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, England, is one of two monuments in the area erected in memory of Prime Minister and founder of the police force Robert Peel, who was born in Bury. [1] [2] It is on Harcles Hill near Ramsbottom, 1100 feet (335 metres) above sea level. [3]
The East Lancashire Railway is a twelve-and-a-half-mile (20 km) heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in Lancashire. There are intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street , Burrs Country Park , Summerseat and Ramsbottom , with the line crossing the border into Rossendale ...
Ramsbottom Urban District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district of the administrative county of Lancashire, England. [1] Its area was coterminate with Ramsbottom , spanning an area of the Rossendale Valley north of the County Borough of Bury .