AI automation across Rossendale.
We work with businesses in all 62 towns and villages in the district.
Towns in Rossendale
Rawtenstall
Population 23,000
Largest town in the valley; the Whitehead brothers' cotton mills (Ilex Mill still stands) gave way to slipper making and now to re...
Haslingden
Population 15,969
Quarried Haslingden Flag sandstone paved Trafalgar Square; a cotton weaving town once known as part of "The Golden Valley".
Bacup
Population 13,323
Engineering, plastics, furniture and e-commerce employers at Futures Park and New Line Industrial Estate, including Orthoplastics,...
Whitworth
Population 7,500
The borough's only civil parish; coal mining, quarrying and yarn manufacture were the chief industries, served by the 18th century...
Helmshore
Population 5,805
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum occupies the Turners' water-powered Higher Mill; Sunnybank Mill made industrial felts and once held...
Villages and smaller places we also cover
These are served from the same team on the same terms. They are listed here rather than given a page each, because a page that only restates the district page helps nobody.
Goodshaw
Rossendale ward on the Pennine edge between Rawtenstall and Crawshawbooth.
Stacksteads
Cotton mills lined the Irwell here before the Bacup Shoe Company took over Stacksteads Mill; Lee Quarry is now...
Shawforth
Ward of Whitworth township on the River Spodden, with a railway station from 1881 to 1947.
Edenfield
Greater Manchester commuter village with an independent high street of baker, butcher, pharmacy and post offic...
Weir
Grew from hamlet to outlying suburb of Bacup after the Burnley Road turnpike was cut through it in the late 18...
Water
Small Burnley Road East settlement with farms, industrial estates and a primary school.
Acre
Balladen
Bankside Top
Bent Gate
Britannia
Forms the Britannia and Lee Mill built-up area on the Bacup to Whitworth road.
Broadclough
Hamlet on the northern edge of Bacup.
Chatterton
Small Irwell-side village next to Strongstry and Stubbins, site of the 1826 Chatterton power-loom riot
Cloughfold
Valley floor settlement between Rawtenstall and Waterfoot.
Constablelee
Cowpe
Farming hamlet with a Christmas tree farm and Cowpe Reservoir fishing; its mill closed in 2002 after flooding.
Crawshawbooth
Victorian cotton and shoemaking village ringed by farms and moorland, known locally for its butchers.
Cribden
Rawtenstall district on Burnley Road beneath Cribden Hill; gives its name to the Goodshaw and Cribden ward
Deerplay
Moorland area north of Bacup on the Burnley road.
Dulesgate
Ewood Bridge
Facit
One of the settlements strung along the A671 through the Whitworth Valley.
Flax Moss
Goodshaw Fold
Hillside hamlet above Crawshawbooth adjoining Goodshaw Chapel, the Grade I listed Georgian Baptist chapel
Greave
Gregory Fold
Hall Carr
Hareholme
Haslingden Grane
Depopulated reservoir valley west of Haslingden holding three reservoirs, now a walking and recreation area.
Healey
Settlement at the southern end of the Whitworth Valley on the A671.
Higher Cloughfold
Holden Vale
Site of the Holden Wood bleach works, which made propellants in the Second World War and cellulose paper after...
Hud Hey
Irwell Vale
Riverside village at a river confluence, with a station on the East Lancashire heritage railway.
Lee Mill
Quarry settlement paired with Britannia in the local built-up area.
Lockgate
Longholme
Loveclough
Village at the northern edge of the Rossendale valley, north of Crawshawbooth.
Lumb
Whitewell Brook valley village; a chapelry from 1846, when St Michael's church was founded.
Musbury
Valley and hamlet near Helmshore beneath Musbury Tor.
New Hall Hey
Rawtenstall riverside district, now the borough's main retail and business park on the former New Hall Hey pri...
Newchurch
Hilltop village above Waterfoot; the old Newchurch civil parish covered much of upper Rossendale before 1894.
Newline
Gives its name to Bacup's New Line Industrial Estate.
Oakenhead Wood
Settlement on Haslingden Old Road above Rawtenstall with Grade II listed weavers' cottages
Reedsholme
Former township between Crawshawbooth and Goodshaw in the Limy Water valley, historic weaving settlement
Rising Bridge
Roadside village on the A56/A680 junction, straddling the Rossendale and Hyndburn boundary.
Sharneyford
Moorland hamlet on the high ground east of Bacup.
Sherfin
Strongstry
Preserved mill-workers terrace hamlet beside the River Irwell in the southern Rossendale Valley
Stubbins
Industrial village at the southern end of the Rossendale Valley on the East Lancashire Railway, historically a...
Townsend Fold
Small settlement south of Rawtenstall on the Irwell.
Tunstead
Stacksteads/Bacup district giving its name to the Anglican parish of Tunstead Holy Trinity with Bacup St Savio...
Turn Village
Moorland hamlet above Edenfield on the Rossendale side of the Bury boundary
Waterbarn
Stacksteads locality centred on the Grade II listed 1847 Waterbarn Baptist Chapel
Waterfoot
Felt making, slipper manufacture and stone quarrying town; Karrimor began here in 1931, and Chadwicks black pu...
Whitewell Bottom
Wood Top
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