Rochdale

Worth seeing in and around Rochdale

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
   Spotland Stadium

   Spotland Stadium, known as the Crown Oil Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose sports stadium in the Spotland district of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, which is home to Rochdale Association Football Club and the Rochdale Hornets Rugby League Football Club. The venue has a capacity of 10,249.

   1.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hollingworth Lake

   Hollingworth Lake is a 130-acre reservoir at Smithy Bridge in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from the 1860s.

   4.8 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton

   The Parish Church of St. Matthew is the Church of England parish church for Chadderton in Greater Manchester, England.

   5.9 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Rochdale Branch Canal

   The Rochdale Branch Canal was a branch of the Rochdale Canal in north-west England which led close to Rochdale Town Centre. It was in use from 1794, and was bordered by the landscaped gardens of Lark Mill House on the western bank until the 1850s.

   800 m · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Rochdale Cenotaph

   Rochdale Cenotaph is a First World War memorial on the Esplanade in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is one of seven memorials in England based on his Cenotaph in London and one of his more ambitious designs.

   700 m · war memorial in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Church of St Edmund, Rochdale

   Saint Edmund's Church is a redundant church building located on Clement Royds Street in the Falinge area of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. Commissioned by Rochdale's local industrialist and Freemason Albert Royds, the construction of the building was completed to a high and rich specification in 1873, with an "enormous" cost of around £25,000.

   1.3 km · Grade I listed church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St John the Baptist's Church, Smallbridge

   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.

   3.2 km · grade II listed church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Church of Saint Luke

   The Church of St Luke is an Anglican parish church on York Street in Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active church in the Diocese of Manchester and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building.

   4.3 km · church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Queen's Park, Rochdale

   Queen's Park is a public park on Queen's Park Road in Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Created on land gifted to the Heywood Local Board in the 1870s, it was laid out on the former grounds of Heywood House and opened in 1879.

   3.8 km · public park in Rochdale, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale

    St John the Baptist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. The parish was founded in 1830, and construction of the present church began in 1925; it was completed in 1927.

    400 m · Roman Catholic church building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Rochdale Pioneers Museum

   31 Toad Lane OL12 0NU (off Hunter’s Lane),.

2. 02
   Rochdale Town Hall

   Attractive Victorian Gothic revival building opened in 1871.

3. 03
   Ellenroad Engine House

   Elizabethan Way, Milnrow OL16 4LE (by jcn 21 of M62).

4. 04
   Summit Tunnel

   When opened in 1841, it was the world's longest railway tunnel, at 2885 yards (2638 m).

From Wikivoyage: Rochdale, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Cinema: Reel Cinema is in Riverside Retail Centre Odeon is west side of town in Sandbrook Park. Theatre: Curtain Theatre is at 47 Milkstone Rd, 100 yards west of the railway station. Rochdale Leisure Centre is on Entwisle Rd. It has a fitness centre and swimming pool. Football: Rochdale AFC were promoted in 2026 and now play soccer in League Two, the fourth tier.

1. 01
   TeamKarting

   Ensor Mill, Queensway OL11 2NU, hello@teamkarting.co.uk.

From Wikivoyage: Rochdale, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

The Martlet is within Town Hall, open M-Th 10AM-4PM, F Sa 10AM-9PM, Su noon-6PM. La Mancha is a tapas place at

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Getting to Rochdale

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 30 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 43 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 55 km

Stations

Rochdale railway station, 400 m · Castleton railway station, 2.3 km · Littleborough railway station, 5.7 km · Smithy Bridge railway station, 4 km · Shaw and Crompton tram stop, 6 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rochdale

  45 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
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• Liverpool → Rochdale

  59 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rochdale

  100 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–18
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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 Rochdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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