Littleborough

Littleborough is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England It is placed inside the upper Roch Valley via the foothills of the South Pennines, 3 miles northeast of Rochdale and 12.6 miles north-northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 toll road are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge are to the east. In 2001, Littleborough and its suburbs of Calderbrook, Shore and Smithy Bridge, had a populace of 13,807, Historically a part of Lancashire, Littleborough and its environment have furnished evidence of Neolithic, Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon hobby inside the region.

During the Middle Ages, Littleborough changed into a hamlet inside the manor of Hundersfield, parish of Rochdale and hundred of Salford. It become focussed upon the junction of ancient routes over the Pennines one of which may have been a Roman road that joined to move the River Roch. By 1472, Littleborough consisted of a chapel, a cluster of cottages, and an inn, and its inhabitants have been extensively farmers who were spurred to weave wool via traders who exceeded among the markets at Rochdale and Halifax. When cotton became brought as a base to make textiles, Littleborough experienced an influx of families, ordinarily from the neighbouring West Riding of Yorkshire. Affluent homes and estates had been hooked up on Littleborough's fringes.