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Lancashire/Yorkshire boundary stone at Walsden

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This restaurant actually materialised - opened for a while - then there was a fire and it closed.

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Moored at Warland, Walsden, this restaurant actually materialised - opened for a while - then there was a fire and it closed.

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This restaurant actually materialised - opened for a while - then there was a fire and it closed.

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Once an incredibly popular & busy pub - it has now been converted into a private dwelling.

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BOTTOMS MILL, Walsden
LOCATION: Bottoms
REF: CD6
GRID REF: 934 214
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Quite a small mill site on either side of Rochdale Road. Mill buildings…

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HOLLINS MILL

LOCATION: Rochdale Road, Walsden

REF: CD8

GRID REF: 935 221

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Mostly used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: One of the largest mills in the Todmorden area, a four storey,…

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BIRKS MILL
LOCATION: Hollingworth Lane, Walsden
REF: CD7
GRID REF: 935 219
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Semi-used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C (site earlier)
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: An early water powered site, a carding and spinning…

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NAME: STRINES MILL
LOCATION: Bottoms
REF: CD 4
GRID REF: 933 213
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Mostly used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid 19c. Site earlier
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This is probably the site of an earlier water-powered cotton mill,…

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NAME: JUBILEE MILL
LOCATION: Bottoms
REF: CD 5
GRID REF: 934 214
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C/earkt 20C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This is one of the few brick-built mills in this district, and its main…

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NAME: JUBILEE MILL
LOCATION: Bottoms
REF: CD 5
GRID REF: 934 214
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Empty
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C/earkt 20C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: This is one of the few brick-built mills in this district, and its main…

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HOPE MILL

LOCATION: Alma Road, Walsden

REF: CD10

GRID REF: 933 223

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Mostly used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Most of this site is taken up by a stone weaving shed. Various other…

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NAME: TRAVIS HOLME MILL

LOCATION: Rochdale Road, Walsden

REF: CD11

GRID REF: 931 224

CLASSIFICATION: B and C

CONDITION: Fully used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: From late 18C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Here or hereabouts was the site of…

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NAME: CLOUGH MILL

LOCATION: Just off Rochdale Road, Walsden.

REF: CD12

GRID REF: 930 224

CLASSIFICATION: A

CONDITION: Mostly disappeared

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: From late 18C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: An historic site that has now…

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BIRKS MILL

LOCATION: Hollingworth Lane, Walsden

REF: CD7

GRID REF: 935 219

CLASSIFICATION: C

CONDITION: Semi-used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C (site earlier)

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: An early water powered site, a carding and…

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NAME: ALMA WORKS

LOCATION: Alma Road, Walsden

REF: CD9

GRID REF: 933 222

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Semi-used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Located on the Rochdale Canal, just above Hollins Mill, Alma…

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NAME: WATERSTALLS MILL

LOCATION: Bottomley

REF: CD1

GRID REF: 943 212

CLASSIFICATION: A

CONDITION: Ruins

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Early-mid 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Perched high on the westerly facing hillside of…

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HOPE MILL

LOCATION: Alma Road, Walsden

REF: CD10

GRID REF: 933 223

CLASSIFICATION: D

CONDITION: Mostly used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Most of this site is taken up by a stone weaving shed. Various other…

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NAME: RAMSDEN MILLS

LOCATION: Ramsden Wood

REF: CD 3

GRID REF: 929 213

CLASSIFICATION: C

CONDITION: Semi-used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Also known as Ramsden Wood Mills (see above), this was also a…

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HOLLINS MILL
LOCATION: Rochdale Road, Walsden
REF: CD8
GRID REF: 935 221
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Mostly used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: One of the largest mills in the Todmorden area, a four storey,…

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When the railway was constructed in the late 1830s the canal had to be diverted to make way for the deep railway cutting. The line of the canal originally ran closer to the cottages on Square Road, via the present railway bridge and through what is…

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Loco number 10747. Built at Horwich Works, went into service June 1896, withdrawn November 1936

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Waterstalls Mill, Walsden. One of the earliest examples of a Fielden owned cotton mill, the ruins of which still bear evidence to the harnessing of water power for the spinning industry, comprising three dams feeding a large water wheel which, in…
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