The town sits within a rural setting in the Forest of Rossendale, amongst the steep-sided upper-Irwell Valley, through which the River Irwell passes.

* Gary Titley is the Leader of the Labour MEPs and represents the North West of England covering Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Salford, South Ribble, Trafford, Rochdale, Rossendale, West Lancashire and Wyre.

* Rossendale Valley, Lancashire

As a placename, Alden can refer to ' the Alder ', the tree ( alnus ) of the birch family, such as the Alden Valley, Rossendale, England, UK.

In Group B ( the Rossendale Valley group ) are Bacup, Edenfield, Haslingden, Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall.

In 2006 it was a 14 club tournament with the same format as today except the Rossendale Valley group only had 4 clubs in it.

Edenfield joined the Cup in 2007 to give the Rossendale Valley group 5 clubs.

A map of Lancashire, showing the Boroughs: ( 1 ) West Lancashire ; ( 2 ) Chorley ( borough ) | Chorley ; ( 3 ) South Ribble ; ( 4 ) Borough of Fylde | Fylde ; ( 5 ) City of Preston, Lancashire | Preston ; ( 6 ) Wyre ; ( 7 ) City of Lancaster | Lancaster ; ( 8 ) Ribble Valley ; ( 9 ) Pendle ; ( 10 ) Burnley ( borough ) | Burnley ; ( 11 ) Rossendale ; ( 12 ) Hyndburn ; ( 13 ) Blackpool ; and ( 14 ) Blackburn with Darwen.

During its history, it gained control in England of the Metropolitan Electric and South Metropolitan systems in London, as well as systems in Barsley, Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham, Birmingham and Midland, Brighton and Shoreham, Cambridge, Devonport and District, Dudley and Stourbridge, Gateshead, Gravesend, Great Yarmouth, Hartlepool, Jarrow, Kidderminster and Stourport, Leamington and Warwick, Middleton, Oldham Ashton and Hyde, Peterborough, Poole, the Potteries, Rossendale Valley, Sheerness, South Staffordshire, Southport, South Shields, Taunton, Tynemouth, Weston-Super-Mare, Wolverhapton District, Worcester and Yorkshire ( Woollen District ).

* Whispering Wall: Inspired by the water board's installations in the Rossendale Valley, this sculpture brings together elements of local quarrying, redundant pipe work and the ever-present sound of running water.

Tottington's physical geography is characterised by its position alongside the West Pennine Moors and the entrance to the Rossendale Valley.

It borders four other constituencies: Ribble Valley to the north, Hyndburn to the east, Rossendale and Darwen to the south and Chorley to the west.

The Rossendale Valley also known as the Forest of Rossendale, is an upland area of North West England, in Lancashire.

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Stubbins is an industrial village in the southern part of the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire.

Rawtenstall ( or ) is a town at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, in Lancashire, England.

** East Lancs customer base for the Olympian came exclusively within the UK market-in particular municipal bus companies like Blackpool Transport, Cardiff City Transport, Derby City Transport, Eastbourne Buses, Lincoln City Transport, Nottingham City Transport, Northampton Transport, Plymouth City Transport, Rhymney Valley, Rossendale Transport, Southampton City Transport and Warrington Borough Transport.

Snighole is a local beauty spot situated in the valley of the River Ogden in the Lancashire village of Helmshore, near Haslingden in the Rossendale Valley.

* Accrington and Rossendale College ( also known as Across ) is a further education college for 14 – 19 year olds.

Bacup () is a town within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England.

Janet Anderson ( b. 6 December 1949, Newcastle upon Tyne ) is an English Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Rossendale and Darwen from 1992 until 2010.

Sharpe remains faithful to his second wife, until she herself proves disloyal ; when Sharpe is falsely accused of theft and murder, she embarks on an adulterous affair with Sharpe's former friend Lord John Rossendale and steals the fortune Sharpe had accumulated in London.

Haslingden is a small town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England.

Part of what is now Haslingden, along with that of the neighbouring towns of Rawtenstall and beyond that Bacup were part of the Forest of Blackburnshire, that part being the Forest of Rossendale.

There are Upper and Lower Haslingden Flagstones and the name is given to layers of the stone that appear throughout the area ( not only in Haslingden ) although the most spectacular examples are in the Rossendale valley.

The town is also served by the Lancashire Telegraph, which publishes a Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale edition six days a week and by a weekly freesheet, the ' Pendle Citizen ', which appears on Thursdays.

Marsh is currently the Head Academy coach of the ambitious Accrington & Rossendale College in East Lancashire, the team competes in the Lancashire F. A under 18 league on a Monday night and a British Colleges Elite league on a Wednesday afternoon.

Evidence of prehistoric human activity has been discovered in the hills surrounding the town. Early records show that in Norman times what is now Ramsbottom was part of the Forest of Rossendale.

Ramsbottom is part of the Bury North constituency which was created in 1983 from parts of the former seats of the former Rossendale and Bury and Radcliffe constituencies.

* Rossendale School founded in 1989 is a specialist residential and day school for children aged eight to 16 with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.

The area is covered by the Bury Times, Lancashire Telegraph and Rossendale Free Press newspapers.

The sculpture is a symbol of unity between the people of Rossendale and Bocholt as a reminder to the people of Rossendale that they have friends in other parts of Europe.

Clowbridge Reservoir is situated on the boundary with Rossendale, east of the A682.

His partner Janet Anderson is the former Labour MP for Rossendale and Darwen.

Rossendale and Darwen is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The area is within the Borough of Rossendale.

In the end after three days of riots 1, 139 looms were destroyed, 4 rioters and 2 bystanders shot dead by the authorities in Rossendale and 41 rioters sentenced to death ( all of whose sentences were commuted ).

From 1983 until 2010, Bacup was represented in the House of Commons as part of the parliamentary constituency of Rossendale and Darwen, by Janet Anderson, a member of parliament belonging to the Labour Party.

At Bacup passengers used the terminus opened 30 years earlier by the East Lancashire Railway, joining the Rossendale line just outside the station.

It also shows that the land was held directly by King Edward, After the Norman conquest of England, much of the great forest was established as royal hunting grounds, and divided into the four forests of Accrington, Pendle, Trawden and Rossendale.

Used for 50 or more years by Rossendale Amateur Operatic Society, and other local groups, the hall was closed by Rossendale Council in 2005 after an audit commission found them to be the worst council in the country and this was shown in the published league tables of the time.

News and sport in the area are covered by BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Manchester and by Rossendale Radio, a community radio station until it ceased broadcasts in March 2012.

Funded by Groundwork Rossendale, and English Partnerships in association with the East Lancashire Railway.

Given the large number of Norse-derived place names in Rossendale and bearing in mind that documents from the 17th century and older spell the name as Aydenfield or some variant of this, a likely etymology is the Norse " øy " ( riverside ground / island ; see for instance the village of Øyer ) + " tun " ( farmstead ) + field ; in other words, the land belonging to the farmstead by the river ( Irwell ).

As of June 2009, both Lancashire County Council and the local council, Rossendale Borough Council, are controlled by the Conservative Party.

The town is served locally by Rossendale Transport, with a large bus station close to the centre, as well as frequent express services X43 and X44 to Burnley, Nelson and Manchester run by Transdev Burnley & Pendle.

The Rossendale Valley's local newspaper, the Rossendale Free Press was originally based here, before being bought out by M. E. N Media in 2009 and subsequently moving to Manchester.