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Newhey is a village near the town of Milnrow in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the foot of the South Pennines, by Junction 21 of the M62 motorway and on the River Beal, 3 miles (4.8 km) east-southeast of Rochdale, 10 miles (16.1 km) northeast of Manchester.
Newhey from its boundary with Shaw and Crompton
Ellenroad Ring Mill, as it was in 1984.
Looking over Newhey
St Thomas's at Newhey
Milnrow
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Milnrow is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, and forms a continuous urban area with Rochdale. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Rochdale town centre, 10 miles (16.1 km) north-northeast of Manchester, and spans from Windy Hill in the east to the Rochdale Canal in the west. Milnrow is adjacent to junction 21 of the M62 motorway, and includes the village of Newhey, and hamlets at Tunshill and Ogden.
Milnrow and the M62 motorway
Sheep on the Rochdale Way in the rural Piethorne Valley. Livestock were kept here by the Anglo-Saxons, and butter and wool production paved the way for industrial-age farming and commercial practices.
Weavers' cottages in Milnrow, built using sandstone in a style typical of the area. Handloom weaving of woollens was the staple industry during the early modern period.
Butterworth Hall Mill was Milnrow's last cotton mill.