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Rochdale is a town in Greater
Manchester in north-west England with a population
of 94,000. It is the largest town in the Metropolitan
Borough of Rochdale, and gets its name from its
position on the River Roch at the edge of the
Pennines. Rochdale is twinned with the towns of
Bielefeld in Germany, Tourcoing in France and
Sahiwal in Pakistan.
The borough's location as a crossroads for trade
between east and west England saw the building
of George Stephenson's Summit Rail Tunnel and
the Rochdale Canal from Manchester to Yorkshire
(re-opened in 2003 following years of neglect
after an east-west motorway cut through it) supporting
local textile industries of cotton, wool and silk.
The Manchester and Leeds railway opened a station
serving the town, but the line passed about a
mile south of the town centre. The station remains
open though much reduced in size from its heyday.
The town is to be served by an extension of the
Manchester Metrolink system, but this scheme is
currently in abeyance. The M62 motorway also passes
to the south of the town.
Rochdale is perhaps best known for being the
birthplace of the Co-operative movement. A museum
now exists at Toad Lane, the site of the Rochdale
Pioneers. Rochdale College in Toronto, Canada,
a co-operative housing and alternative education
experiment, was named in honour of the town of
Rochdale, England, as a tribute to its historic
importance for the co-operative movement.
This Co-operative movement also includes the
national supermarket chain, the Co-operative supermarket,
which once started where the town center Shopping
Center was; a memorial of 3 brass sheep represents
the Lancashire traditions and beginnings of the
Co-Op.
It has a fine Victorian Town Hall, finished in
1871. The original clock tower was destroyed by
fire in 1883, and the present tower was designed
by Alfred Waterhouse in 1887. The stained glass
window, which is in the southernmost part of the
building, was supposed to be one of Hitler's top-priority
items for acquisition, should he win the war.
This town hall is built directly next to the
underground location where the River Roch flows
underneath the town.
The front of the town hall has gargoyles, as
well as golden statues of lions which have the
emblems of Rochdale, Lancashire and Yorkshire
on them. These are said to be a commemoration
of the peace between the two counties, Rochdale
being one of the towns helping to achieve it.
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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| Baguley | Barlow
Moor | Benchill
| Blackley | Bramhall
| Burnage | Cheetham
Hill | Clayton |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
| Crumpsall | Didsbury
| Fallowfield | Gorton
| Harpurhey | Hulme
| Levenshulme | Longsight
| Miles Platting
| Moss Side | Moston
| Newton Heath |
Northenden | Rusholme
| Sharston | Withington
| Whalley Range
| Wythenshawe | Towns
& places: Salford
Sale Altrincham
Cheadle Stockport
Ashton-under-Lyne
Oldham Bury
Rochdale Stockport
Stretford
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