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Castleshaw

Castleshaw is a hamlet in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.

The place

Castleshaw is a hamlet in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) north of Uppermill, 3 miles (4.8 km) west-southwest of Marsden, and 5.3 miles (8.5 km) east-northeast of Oldham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Castleshaw

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Castleshaw Roman fort

    Castleshaw Roman fort was a castellum in the Roman province of Britannia. Although there is no evidence to substantiate the claim, it has been suggested that Castleshaw Roman fort is the site of Rigodunum, a Brigantian settlement.

    300 m · Roman fort in Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Standedge

    Standedge is a moorland escarpment in the Pennine Hills of northern England between Marsden, West Yorkshire and Diggle, Greater Manchester. Standedge has been a major moorland crossing point since Roman times and possibly earlier.

    2 km · hill in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Uppermill Civic Hall

    Uppermill Civic Hall, also known as Saddleworth Civic Hall, is a municipal building in Lee Street, Uppermill, a village in Greater Manchester in England. The building currently serves as the offices and meeting place of Saddleworth Parish Council.

    4 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rooden Reservoir

    Rooden Reservoir is a reservoir in the Piethorne Valley in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, within Greater Manchester, England. It is close to Denshaw in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.

    3.8 km · reservoir in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Thomas' Church, Friarmere

    St Thomas' Church, Friarmere, also known as Heights Chapel, is a redundant Anglican church standing on a hillside overlooking the village of Delph, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2 km · church in Delph, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Chad

    The Church of St Chad is an Anglican parish church on Church Lane in Uppermill, a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth, within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The church occupies an elevated site overlooking the village and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.2 km · church in Uppermill, Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Swan Inn

    The Swan Inn is a Grade II listed public house on The Square in Dobcross, a village in Saddleworth within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Built in 1765, as indicated by a datestone, the building's upstairs room was used as a magistrates' court in the 18th century.

    3.1 km · Grade II listed public house in Dobcross, Saddleworth, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL3 · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    White Lion Public House

    The White Lion is a Grade II listed public house on Delph Lane in Delph, a village in Saddleworth within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Built in the mid to late 18th century, it originated as three separate houses and was in use as an inn by the late 19th century.

    2.2 km · Grade II listed public house in Delph, Saddleworth, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Castleshaw

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 32 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 39 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 63 km
Stations
Delph railway station, 2.6 km · Diggle railway station, 1.6 km · Dobcross railway station, 3.7 km · Measurements Halt railway station, 3.3 km · Saddleworth railway station, 3.2 km
  • Liverpool → Castleshaw
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Castleshaw
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Castleshaw
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Castleshaw

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Castleshaw. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    300 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    323 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    325 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    362 km

If you know how people move in Castleshaw – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Castleshaw

Castleshaw is 19 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Delphvillage in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Denshawvillage in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Uppermillvillage near Oldham, England3.8 km
  • Saddleworthcivil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England3.7 km
  • Digglevillage in Saddleworth, Oldham, UK1.6 km
  • Greenfieldvillage in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom3.5 km