Stubbins is an industrial village in the southern part of the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. The Rossendale Valley is part of the Forest of Rossendale, an upland area of North West England, principally in Lancashire. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea
It is half a mile north of Ramsbottom town centre on the A676 between Bolton and Edenfield. Ramsbottom is a small town on the border of Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. List of A roads beginning with 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 and A7 roads and west of the A1. Bolton ( is a large town in Greater Manchester, in the North West region of England. Edenfield is a village within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. For local government purposes, it receives services from Rossendale Borough Council and Lancashire County Council. Rossendale Borough Council is a local authority district council in the Lancashire area of north west England. Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier Local authority for the Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. Nearby are the hamlets of Chatterton and Strongstry. Chatterton is a small hamlet in the southern part of the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. Strongstry is a small Hamlet in Rossendale, Lancashire. The hamlet is only accessible by an unadopted road running through a factory
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Description
Much of the land to the west of the village is in the care of the National Trust and consists of hillside pasture and woodland leading up to Holcombe Moor and Peel Tower. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales See Peel tower for the generic structure The memorial tower to Sir Robert Peel high above Ramsbottom was planned and erected
The adjoining parkland (at Chatterton) was given to the people of the district of Ramsbottom as a peace memorial by the Porritt family. A memorial is an object which serves as a memory of something usually a person (who has died or an event The village public house (now private offices - redeveloped in 2006), the Corner Pin, was originally the Railway Hotel, recalling the days when Stubbins had its own station. One branch of the line is still used by the East Lancashire Railway to run regular weekend steam services between Rawtenstall and Bury. This article is about the present East Lancashire Railway for the previous incarnation see East Lancashire Railway 1844-1859 Overview Rawtenstall (pronounced "Rottenstall" ˈrɒtənˌstɔːl or ˈrɒʔnˌstɔːl is a town at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, in Lancashire, Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, north-northwest of the city of Manchester, west-southwest of The second line now provides an attractive walk to Irwell Vale. Col. A. T. Porritt gave much of the nearby countryside to the National Trust in memory of his son, Richard, who was killed in the Second World War. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
History
Stubbins has a long history, its name (see below) looks back to the Middle Ages when people were carving new farms out of the heavily wooded countryside. Like other communities in Rossendale, Stubbins grew in the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the The change to an industrial village began towards the end of the 18th century when a calico printworks was built on the site now occupied by the huge 'Fort James Papermill'.
The 19th century owners of the printworks began to give the village its present shape by building rows of terraced houses for their workers. The other main employers were the Porritt family who built Stubbins Vale mill in 1851 and the Ramsbottom Spinning and Manufacturing Co. , a co-operative of working men, whose 1861 factory was christened Union Mill. Much of Stubbins Vale mill was demolished in the 1970s, but the old weaving sheds were taken over as the administrative head office of TNT, the international carriers.
Etymology
Stubbing 1563. Old English meaning 'a place with tree stumps', implying a place from which many trees have been cleared. [1]
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References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names/Mills OUP 1991 ISBN 0-19-852758-6
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