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Recommended towns & villages near Hollingworth Lake Country Park

A picture of Todmorden

Todmorden

(5.9 miles, 9.5 km, direction N)

Todmorden lies on the historic border between Yorkshire and Lancashire in an area of the Calder Valley ringed by the hills of the Pennines...

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Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire

Marsden

(7.1 miles, 11.4 km, direction E)

Marsden offers visitors a wealth of heritage, particularly in association with the town's expansion which came about during the heady days of the Industrial Revolution...

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Rochdale Canal at Hebden Bridge

Hebden Bridge

(8.5 miles, 13.6 km, direction NE)

This beautiful old town grew up close to the River Hebden at the point where a stone bridge was built as part of a pack-horse route in the 16th century...

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Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing Festival Weekend

Sowerby Bridge

(9.1 miles, 14.6 km, direction NE)

Surrounded by the dramatic scenery of the South Pennines, with the town's gentle scenery being enhanced by the River Calder and the River Ryburn on which the town stands...

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Overlooking Paper Mill in Ramsbottom from St.Catherines Way.

Ramsbottom

(9.4 miles, 15.1 km, direction W)

The countryside surrounding the town offers lakes, woods and hills, with distant Winter Hill rising to a height of 456 feet...

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Mill Fold, Golcar, West Yorkshire

Golcar

(10.2 miles, 16.5 km, direction E)

Sturdily built of stone, this small hill town is perched north of the River Colne and the now restored Huddersfield Narrow Canal...

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This is St Stephens Church, which is in Audenshaw.

Audenshaw

(10.9 miles, 17.6 km, direction S)

Audenshaw is a suburb of Greater Manchester. It is probably best known for its reservoirs and the busy waters of the Ashton canal, beside which visitors can see clusters of delightful canal-side properties...

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Wainhouse Tower, Halifax

Halifax

(11.8 miles, 19.0 km, direction NE)

Halifax is an industrial city close to the famous Pennines and the route of the Pennine Way in what is known as Yorkshire's "Bronte" country...

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Manchester

Manchester

(12.2 miles, 19.7 km, direction SW)

A thriving truly cosmopolitan city with a great mixture of new and old. The capital of the north..

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Wayoh Reservoir, Edgworth, Lancs

Edgworth

(12.4 miles, 20.0 km, direction W)

This attractive hillside village occupies a pleasant rural location close to two pretty reservoirs and the historic house known as Turton Tower...

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One of several waterfalls at Healey Dell, Whitworth, near Rochdale, Lancs.

Healey Dell

(4.2 miles, 6.8 km, direction W)

Healey Dell Nature Reserve on the Whitworth - Rochdale border, sits in a picturesque part of the Spodden Valley. Rich with flora.....

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Gelderwood Country Park

(5.4 miles, 8.6 km, direction W)

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Marsden Moor, Yorkshire

Marsden Moor Estate

(7.0 miles, 11.3 km, direction E)

Marsden Moor was gifted to the National Trust in 1955 by Captain Sir Joseph Benedict Everard Henry Radcliffe in lieu of death.....

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Pots and Pans

Pots and Pans

(7.4 miles, 11.8 km, direction SE)

The 'Pots and Pans', also known as 'The Druid Stones' are natural rock formations above the village of Greenfield, and are.....

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Dovestone Reservoir, Greenfield, Near Oldham

Dovestone Reservoir

(8.5 miles, 13.7 km, direction SE)

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A picture of East Lancashire Railway, Bury - Lancashire.

East Lancashire Railway

(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction W)

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Heaton Hall

Heaton Hall

(9.3 miles, 15.0 km, direction SW)

This divine house is a masterpiece of James Wyatt, one of the greatest architects to come out of the 18th century. It was built.....

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Gibson Mill in Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks.

Hardcastle Crags & Gibson Mill

(9.5 miles, 15.3 km, direction N)

Beautiful wooded valley with 19th-century Gibson Mill at its heart, an exemplar of sustainable energy. This is the flagship.....

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Portland Basin

Portland Basin Museum

(10.2 miles, 16.4 km, direction S)

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Museum of Transport

(10.6 miles, 17.1 km, direction SW)

The Museum of Transport, Manchester has one of the largest collections of its kind in the country. The Collection consists of.....

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