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Littleborough

Littleborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Roch Valley by the foothills of the South Pennines, 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Rochdale and 13 miles (20.9 km) northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 motorway are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge to the east.

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Littleborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Roch Valley by the foothills of the South Pennines, 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Rochdale and 13 miles (20.9 km) northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 motorway are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge to the east. According to the 2001 census, Littleborough, and its suburbs of Calderbrook, Shore and Smithy Bridge, had a population of 13,807.

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Manchester (MAN), 35 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 38 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 60 km
  • Liverpool → Littleborough
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–9
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  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Littleborough
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–17
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  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Littleborough
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £16–21
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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 Littleborough. 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

    291 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    325 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    326 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    333 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    352 km

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Littleborough is 20 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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