The wool trade also brought the Rochdale Canal ( running from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester ) and the Manchester and Leeds Railway ( later the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ) ( running from Leeds to Manchester and Burnley ).

These included the building of: ( 1 ) better roads ; ( 2 ) the Rochdale Canal ( 1804 ); and ( 3 ) the main line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway ( 1841 ), which became the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847.

The Manchester and Leeds Railway Company ( later the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ) arrived in Castleton in 1839, and it was here that the line formerly diverged to Bury, Ramsbottom, Rawtenstall, Bacup and finally rejoined the main line at Rochdale.

The mill machinery was railed direct from Thomas Robinson & Son Ltd of Rochdale via a siding from the Midland Railway.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

The River Roch on which Rochdale stands was recorded in the 13th century as " Rachedor Rachet.

The term " socialist " was first used in English in the British Cooperative Magazine in 1827 and came to be associated with the followers of the Welsh reformer Robert Owen, such as the Rochdale Pioneers who founded the co-operative movement.

Medieval Bacup was an obscure and lightly populated chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the High Middle Ages, Bacup was a chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

Lennon was inspired to write the song by a 19th century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal, Rochdale, that he purchased in an antique shop on 31 January 1967, while filming the promotional video for " Strawberry Fields Forever " in Sevenoaks, Kent.

This was followed by the Rochdale Canal, which passes through difficult country between Rochdale and Todmorden.

Another stimulus to trade was provided by the Rochdale Canal, which opened up a through route from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester from 1804.

A new cut between broad cut and the figure of eight locks, which included two large locks, and a new large lock beside the old one at Thorne were opened in 1838, but little more was done, despite the Rochdale Canal pressing for longer locks.

It was the disparity in boat sizes between the Calder and Hebble and the Rochdale canal which made Sowerby Bridge ( at the junction of the two canals ) so important: long boats coming over from Lancashire had to have their cargoes unloaded, stored, and transferred to shorter boats at Sowerby Bridge Wharf.

* Lindsay Jo Rimer went missing in 1994, and her body was later found in the Rochdale Canal the following year.

Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to Rochdale with his family early in his life.

His uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford Park Avenue ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn was his mother's cousin.

A similarly dense network of canals was constructed in the Greater Manchester area, serving the local textile industries: The Bridgewater, Rochdale and Ashton canals, were examples of these.

Wolves ' first promotion was won just a year later, narrowly claiming the Third Division North title at the first attempt ahead of Rochdale.

She was born Anne Jane Hartley at Rochdale, Lancashire, England.

The former warehouse occupied by the club was at 11-13, Whitworth Street West on the southside of the Rochdale Canal: the frontage was curved and built of red brick.

He was born James Kay at Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of Robert Kay.

Bright was born at Rochdale, in Lancashire, England — one of the early centres of the Industrial Revolution.

His father, Jacob Bright, was a much-respected Quaker, who had started a cotton mill at Rochdale in 1809.

In Rochdale, Jacob Bright was a leader of the opposition to a local church-rate.

The major towns of Burnley and Accrington are to the north and northwest respectively ; Todmorden, Walsden and the county of West Yorkshire are to the east ; Rochdale and the county of Greater Manchester are to the south ; Rawtenstall, from where Bacup is governed, is to the west.

** Rochdale: junction for two lines: to Bacup ( closed to passengers 16 June 1947 ) and to Oldham

In 1883, Leno met Sarah Lydia Reynolds ( 1866 – 1942 ), a young dancer and comedy singer from Birmingham, while both were appearing at King Ohmy's Circus of Varieties, Rochdale.

The operations of its other plant in Rochdale and Leesona's former operations in Manchester were transferred to a recently acquired plant in the adjoining town of Heywood.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

The main road running through the town centre is the A680 running from Rochdale to Whalley.

* 1844 – The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.

After finishing his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator, he worked as a mill operative on the fourth floor at Townhead Mill in Rochdale and travelled home each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister.

Whilst in Rochdale Monday to Friday, he stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in the area of Milkstone Road and Drake Street and developed long term associations with Rochdale through the years.

The patronage dividend rewarded the loyalty of the owner members of Britain's retail consumer co-operatives since the Rochdale Pioneers of the 1840s.

More problematic interpretations suggest that it could also have reached as far south as Rochdale in Greater Manchester, recorded in the Domesday Book as Recedham.

The Rochdale Radicals were a group of more extreme reformists who were also heavily involved in the cooperative movement.

** Norwich City wins the English League Cup, beating Rochdale in the final.

* December 21 – The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England.

It is east of Rawtenstall, north of Rochdale, and east of Preston.

Played club rugby for Bridgwater & Albion RFC and Rochdale Hornets.

However, following the sale of club captain Andrew Procter to Preston North End in the January 2012 transfer window, the third-longest serving management team of John Coleman and Jimmy Bell departed for Rochdale.

The major urban centres of Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Blackburn, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham and Stockport, with a combined population of almost one million, were represented by either the two county MPs for Lancashire, or the two for Cheshire in the case of Stockport.