Butterworth, Greater Manchester

Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. It was also a civil parish. It encompassed 12.1 square miles (31 km2) of land in the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Haughs, Hollingworth, Kitcliffe, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey, Ogden, Rakewood, Smithy Bridge, Tunshill and Wildhouse. It extended to the borders of Crompton to the south, and to the highest points of Bleakedgate Moor and Clegg Moor, up to the ridge of Blackstone Edge, to the east, where its boundary was the old county boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire. In 1891 the parish had a population of 9438. Butterworth was probably settled in Saxon times in the Early Middle Ages. Its land was divided into two divisions, the Lordship side with rents or services payable to the lord of the manor and the Freehold side that retained its importance until 1879 as a Registration district for births, deaths and marriages. In 1830, Butterworth was recorded to have 5,554 inhabitants.

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Hollingworth Academy

Hollingworth Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Milnrow in the English county of Greater Manchester. First known as Roch Valley High School, then after amalgamating with Littleborough High School in 1990, it became Hollingworth High School, it was awarded specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College and was renamed Hollingworth Business and Enterprise College. The school moved into a new building in September 2011, and in September 2013 the school converted to academy status and was renamed Hollingworth Academy. Hollingworth Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils.

Milnrow Town Hall

Milnrow Town Hall, formerly known as Milnrow Council Offices (and originally the Local Board Offices), is a former municipal building in Newhey Road, Milnrow, a town in Greater Manchester in England. Built together with an attached fire station, it opened in 1889 and forms a group with the neighbouring former police station (1886) and Milnrow's Carnegie Library (1907). The building, which for decades served as the offices and meeting place of Milnrow Urban District Council, is currently vacant.

Butterworth Hall Brook

Butterworth Hall Brook is a water course in Greater Manchester, North-West England, which flows through the village of Milnrow and is a tributary of the River Beal.

Milnrow Urban District

Milnrow Urban District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district of the administrative county of Lancashire, in northwest England. It covered an area to the east and southeast of the County Borough of Rochdale, and included the town of Milnrow, the village of New Hey, and the Piethorne Valley; Crompton Urban District lay to the south. Milnrow Urban District was created by the Local Government Act 1894, and was for the most part the successor to the township of Butterworth. In 1974, Milnrow Urban District was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 and its former area transferred to Greater Manchester to form part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.