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Hollingworth

Hollingworth is a village in the Tameside district, in Greater Manchester, England.

Hollingworth
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The place

Hollingworth is a village in the Tameside district, in Greater Manchester, England. It is about 11 miles (19 km) east of Manchester, on the Derbyshire border near Hadfield. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. It gave its name to a family who owned much of the surrounding area from before the time of the Norman conquest.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hollingworth

10 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
    Ardotalia

    Ardotalia, also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones.

    1.2 km · Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mouselow Castle

    Glossop Castle is a Norman earthwork north of Glossop, off Hilltop Road, 14 miles east of Manchester, on the A57. The site is visible from the main road, standing atop a commanding ridge.

    2.2 km · ringwork castle near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bottoms Reservoir

    Bottoms Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed between 1865 and 1877, by John Frederick Bateman as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.

    2.1 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Valehouse Reservoir

    Valehouse Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was built between 1865 and 1869 as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs, which was built to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester, while maintaining a constant flow into the river.

    3.3 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St James' Church, Glossop

    St. James's Church is an Anglican church in the evangelical tradition in the town of Glossop, Derbyshire, in the north-west of England.

    3.7 km · Grade II listed church in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Norfolk Square

    Norfolk Square is in the centre of Glossop in Derbyshire, England, a former mill town close to the Peak District. It forms part of the town centre, adjacent to the crossroads where the A57 road meets the A624.

    3.5 km · square in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Howard Park

    Howard Park is a public park in Glossop, in Derbyshire, England. It was opened in 1888, and it is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

    2.7 km · public park in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Glossop Gas Works

    Glossop Gas Works is a historic building in Glossop, England. It was constructed in the late 19th century on Arundel Street, Glossop, as the headquarters of the town's gas company.

    3.2 km · Grade II listed building in Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK13 · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Glossop Town Hall and Market Hall

    Glossop Town Hall, Market Hall, and Municipal Buildings is a complex in the centre of Glossop, Derbyshire, providing offices for High Peak Borough Council, a retail arcade, and covered market. The Town Hall was constructed in 1838 and significantly extended and altered in 1845, 1897 and 1923.

    3.5 km · town hall and market hall in Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Glossop War Memorial

    Glossop War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II listed war memorial in Norfolk Square in Glossop, Derbyshire.

    3.5 km · Grade II listed war memorial in Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hollingworth

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 23 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 50 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 59 km
Stations
Glossop railway station, 3.5 km · Hadfield railway station, 1.7 km · Hattersley railway station, 3.8 km · Dinting railway station, 2.1 km · Broadbottom railway station, 3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hollingworth
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
  • Liverpool → Hollingworth
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hollingworth
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–14
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hollingworth

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 Hollingworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    311 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    312 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    313 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    346 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    372 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hollingworth

Hollingworth is 16 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Glossoptown and unparished area in High Peak district of Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Stalybridgetown in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, UK4 km
  • Tintwistlevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, England1.6 km
  • Hadfieldtown in Derbyshire, England1.4 km
  • Charlesworthvillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England3.3 km
  • Mottram in Longdendalevillage in Tameside, Greater Manchester, UK1.6 km