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One walking route is a circular walk from Hollingworth Lake in Smithy Bridge near Littleborough up to Blackstone Edge, and another route links Blackstone Edge to Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley. The Pennine Way long-distance footpath from Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland passes along the top of the outcrop.
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A turnpike known as the Mytholmroyd Bridge & Blackstone Edge Turnpike, and also as the Cragg Vale Turnpike [7] was established in 1815: "... to open a better and more easy communication than there is at present between the very populous and manufacturing town or villages of Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Mytholmroyd and other places in the ...
Blackstone Edge Reservoir was created in 1798 by William Jessop and the Rochdale Canal Company to supply the Rochdale Canal, which could not be supplied by rivers or streams. The reservoir was planned to be around 20 hectares. [2] This reservoir could hold over 28 million cubic feet of water. [3]
Littleborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, and it is unparished. The town, its suburbs of Calderbrook and Smithy Bridge , and the surrounding countryside contain 79 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England .
Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. [1] It was also a civil parish.It encompassed 12.1 square miles (31 km 2) of land in the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Haughs, Hollingworth, Kitcliffe, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey ...
Littleborough (/ ˈ l ɪ t əl b ər ə / LIT-əl-bər-ə) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, [1] [2] in the upper Roch Valley by the foothills of the South Pennines, 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Rochdale and 13 miles (20.9 km) northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 motorway are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge to the east.
Hollingworth Lake is a 130-acre (53 ha) reservoir at Smithy Bridge in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England.It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from the 1860s.