Rossendale

Rossendale is a district with borough fame in Lancashire, England, preserving some of small former mill towns concentrated on the valley of the River Irwell within the industrial North West. Rossendale combines modest size urban development with rural villages and is without delay south of the greater populated metropolis of Burnley, east of Blackburn and north of Bolton, Bury, Manchester and Rochdale, targeted 15 miles north of Manchester.

In the 2001 census the populace of Rossendale changed into 65,652, spread between the bigger cities of Bacup, Haslingden and Rawtenstall; the villages of Crawshawbooth, Edenfield, Helmshore, Waterfoot, Whitworth; and in addition to Britannia, Broadclough, Chatterton, Cloughfold, Cowpe, Irwell Vale, Loveclough, Newchurch, Shawforth, Stacksteads, Stubbins, Turn and Weir. The population on the 2011 Census had risen to 67,922. The district changed into fashioned on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, from the municipal boroughs of Bacup, Haslingden, Rawtenstall, part of Ramsbottom Urban District and Whitworth Urban District. Rossendale is twinned with the German metropolis of Bocholt, placed close to the Netherlands border.