Arkwright Mill, Rochdale

#20 among attractions in Rochdale

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Arkwright Mill, Rochdale is a cotton spinning mill in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1885 by the Arkwright Cotton Spinning Co. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. It was located next to Dale Mill on Roch Street. The ring and doubling frames were made by Howard & Bullough, Accrington. The mill closed in 1980, was demolished in 2007 and the land redeveloped for housing. ()

Coordinates: 53°37'33"N, 2°8'20"W

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Nearby attractions include: Rochdale Town Hall, Rochdale Pioneers Museum, Rochdale Cenotaph, Falinge Park.

1.1 miSW
City hall, Architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Rochdale Town Hall, Rochdale
28 min walk • Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
1 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
Rochdale Pioneers Museum, Rochdale
25 min walk • The Rochdale Pioneers Museum is housed in the building where the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society started trading on 21 December 1844. The museum is regarded as the birthplace of the modern co-operative movement. It is located in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.
1.1 miSW
Memorial
Rochdale Cenotaph, Rochdale
28 min walk • Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England.
1.1 miW
Park
Falinge Park, Rochdale
28 min walk • Falinge Park is a Grade II listed public park located in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Opened to the public in 1906, it lies in the historic grounds of the 18th century Falinge Hall.
1.2 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum
Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale
31 min walk • Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café forming part of the Central Library, Museum and Art Gallery in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
0.6 miNE
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St John the Baptist's Church, Rochdale
16 min walk • St John the Baptist's Church is in Halifax Road, Smallbridge, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church in the benefice of Wardle and Smallbridge, the deanery of Rochdale, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.
1.2 miSW
Church
St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale
31 min walk • St John the Baptist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It was founded in 1830, and built in 1927. It is situated on the corner of Maclure Road and Dowling Street, opposite the Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum in the centre of the town.
0.9 miE
Vernacular architecture
Clegg Hall, Rochdale
23 min walk • Clegg Hall is a Grade II* listed 17th-century hall in Littleborough, Greater Manchester. It is situated just outside Smithy Bridge, Greater Manchester.
1.1 miW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
Church of Saint Edmund, Rochdale
30 min walk • Saint Edmund's Church is a redundant church building located on Clement Royds Street in the Falinge area of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.
1.2 miSW
Universities and schools
Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale
31 min walk • Hopwood Hall College is a further education college in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It has two campuses, one in Rochdale and one in Middleton.