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Ramsbottom is a town in the Metropolitan
Burough of Bury, Lancashire,
England. The skyline over the town is dominated
by the Peel Monument, the most visible of several
local memorials to Sir Robert Peel, a 19th century
British Prime Minister best remembered as the
creator of the modern British Police Force, who
was born in the area. The best way to visit Ramsbottom
is via the East Lancs Railway on a weekend. Take
the Manchester Metrolink to Bury and walk the
quarter of a mile to the Bolton Street terminus
of the heritage railway. The town lies on the
A676 four miles north of Bury. Ramsbottom may
be less than 25 miles (40 km) as the crow flies
from Knutsford but it is totally opposite in character
- apart from a shared affluence. This is a no-nonsense
stone built Pennines hill town. The roads out
of the town east and west are impossibly steep.
In the Market Place is the Grant Arms, which commemorates
the chief bigwigs of C19, the Grants, who Charles
Dickens immortalised as the Cherryble brothers
in Nicholas Nickleby.
These generally philantrophic mill owners made
sure of the profits of their pub by paying their
workforce in tokens that they could only redeem
in the Grant Arms, part of their wage had then
to be redeemed in drink.
Ramsbottom is placed on the Irwell Sculpture Trail
and in the Market Place is the wonderful Tilted
Vase by Edward Allington. This two ton sculpture
is classical in shape to reflect the surrounding
buildings but also bolted together to reflect
the old industries. The excellent fish and chip
shop on Bridge Street is worth a visit as is Bailey's
Tea Shop on the same street. The latter serves
very genuine, very high quality traditional British
food and old-fashioned but very tasty temperance
drinks such as Dandelion and Burdock. At the other
end of the scale, this tiny town has one of the
best independent restaurants in the region, called
Ramsons. Located in the Market Place, all their
food and drink is organic. A very steep but very
pleasant walk, west up Tanners Street and then
the Rake leads to lovely Holcombe Village and
good food and drink at the Shoulder of Mutton
pub. A further climb takes the visitor to the
Peel Monument on Holcombe Moor. Even from the
foot of the 39 metre tower there are spectacular
views over Manchester to North Wales. Ramsbottom
is also a station on the East Lancashire Railway,
and has a football (soccer) club named Ramsbottom
United, who share their ground with the Ramsbottom
cricket team.
The Black Pudding Throwing World Championships
are held annually at the Royal Oak pub in Ramsbottom.
Participants have to toss the puddings in an attempt
to dislodge a stack of Yorkshire Puddings placed
on plinths on two levels (one for children, the
other for adults). The winner is the one who disloges
more Yorkshire Puddings in three attempts. It
is thought the contest stems from the War of the
Roses in which opposing forces from Lancashire
and Yorkshire are said to have hurled black puddings
and Yorkshire puddings at each other when they
ran out of ammunition.
About Manchester
Manchester
is a city in the north-west of
England. The metropolitan borough of Manchester,
with a population of 422,302, lies at the heart
of a large conurbation called Greater
Manchester, with a population of 2,513,468.
Greater Manchester is also a
metropolitan county in England
established in 1974 which covers an area roughly
encompassing the conurbation of Manchester. It
is situated in North West England. It has borders
with the ceremonial counties of Cheshire (inc.
Warrington), Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire
(inc. Blackburn with Darwen) and Merseyside. As
well as Manchester, the county includes major
centres such as Salford,
Bury, Bolton,
Stockport and Wigan.
Greater Manchester is not entirely built-up. Although
Manchester forms a conurbation along with Salford,
Trafford and Stockport,
other boroughs, such as Wigan
and Bury are clearly separate.
Towns in the
Manchester urban area include Salford,
Sale, Altrincham,
Cheadle, Stockport,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Oldham, Bury,
Rochdale, Stockport
and Stretford. Places
like Trafford and
Salford can be considered
part of the Manchester urban area in a way that
Wigan or Bolton
are not.
The term "Manchester" is often used
to refer to the entire conurbation, much as "London"
is usually used to mean Greater London, but many
of the constituent parts of Greater Manchester,
such as Salford, Wigan and Bolton, also have separate
identities. People from Manchester are called
Mancunians.
Manchester
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| Whalley Range
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