23 March 2021 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 6 minutesRochdale Town Hall © flickr.com – Tim Green/cc-by-2.0
Rochdale is a large town in
Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the
South Pennines in the
dale on the
River Roch, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) northwest of
Oldham and 9.8 miles (15.8 km) northeast of
Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the
Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, which had a population of 211,699 in 2011.
Rochdale Town Hall—a
Grade I listed building—dates from 1871 and is one of the United Kingdom’s finest examples of
Victorian Gothic revival architecture.
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