Birtle, Greater Manchester

Birtle

The Pack Horse Inn public house, Birtle
Birtle
 Birtle shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid referenceSD835135
Metropolitan boroughRochdale
Metropolitan county Greater Manchester
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town HEYWOOD
Postcode district OL10
Dialling code 01706
Police Greater Manchester
Fire Greater Manchester
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentHeywood and Middleton
List of places
UK
England
Greater Manchester

Coordinates: 53°37′05″N 2°14′55″W / 53.618°N 2.2487°W / 53.618; -2.2487

Birtle is a hamlet within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.[1] It lies in the Cheesden Valley, set amongst the Pennines.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Birtle is archaically referred to as Bircle or Birkle which means Birch Hill. Together with neighbouring Bamford, it formed the civil parish of Birtle-with-Bamford (also known as Birtle-cum-Bamford). It was in Middleton ecclesiastical parish and in Bury poor law Union. In 1933, Birtle-with-Bamford was dissolved with Birtle being amalgamated into the Municipal Borough of Heywood.[1]

The local church is the Church of Saint John the Baptist, known locally as Bircle Church.

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  1. 1 2 Greater Manchester Gazetteer, Greater Manchester County Record Office, Places names - B, archived from the original on 18 July 2011, retrieved 17 June 2008


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