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The Cheesden Valley is a valley on the border between the Borough of Rossendale in Lancashire and the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, England. It runs on a north–south alignment between Bury and Rochdale. Cheesden Brook runs through the valley, joining with Naden Brook to eventually run into the River Roch near Heywood. During the industrial age the valley became a centre of cotton production dependent on running water. The valley is now a conservation area.
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Birtle, Greater Manchester
Birtle is an affluent hamlet Historically in the parish of Bury, Lancashire, now within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the Cheesden Valley, set amongst the Pennines.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Birtle is archaically referred to as Bircle or Birkle, which means Birch Hill. Together with neighbouring Bamford, it formed the civil parish of Birtle-with-Bamford (also known as Birtle-cum-Bamford). It was in Middleton ecclesiastical parish and in Bury poor law Union. In 1933, Birtle-with-Bamford was dissolved with Birtle being amalgamated into the Municipal Borough of Heywood.
The local church is Bircle Church, St. John the Baptist, Castle Hill Road, Bircle, Bury. In addition to the graveyard and garden of remembrance, the Church land includes an area now known as 'Bircle Church Wood', which was gifted by the Reverend Trend Smith.
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Ashworth Moor Reservoir
Ashworth Moor Reservoir is an upland water supply reservoir amongst the Pennines in Greater Manchester, England close to the A680 road between Rochdale and Edenfield. It is south of Scout Moor Wind Farm.
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Bircle
The historic parish of Bircle, near Bury, England, was created on 1 July 1846, although the village of Bircle (now known as Birtle) has existed for many centuries. It is believed that 'Bircle' is a shortening of the phrase 'Birch Hill', as it was suggested that there were birch trees in the parish. Names such as "Cleggs Wood", "Simpson Clough" and "Dobb Wood" appear on early Ordnance Survey maps. "Hill' appeared in the fourteenth century in the name of 'Birkhill' but it never found a permanent place. Over time its name has also appeared as Brithull, 1243; Birlcil, 1246; Birkhill, 1334, 1573; but Bircle appears in the Diocese of Manchester directory in England.
Bircle Church is on Castle Hill Road.
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Owd Betts Inn
The Owd Betts Inn (also known as Owd Betts) is a pub, restaurant, and historic building near Norden, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Built in 1796, it is a designated Grade II listed building.
It is located on Edenfield Road (A640), on the outskirts of Rochdale. The building stands adjacent to Ashworth Moor Reservoir to the south and Scout Moor Wind Farm to the north.