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Go exploring with Saddleworth Village Trails These trails are a great way to explore the historic villages of Saddleworth and learn more about the history of the area. Please enjoy your visit responsibly and respect village life so that we can keep Saddleworth a special place for Uppermill Trail future generations to enjoy. A635 A great way to explore the Greenfield historic villages of Saddleworth A62 A670 Diggle A6051 A669 A635 Dobcross Uppermill A62 A6052 Delph A62 Keeping Saddleworth Special Useful information Never drop litter. Take it home with you or Oldham Tourist Information Centre use one of the bins provided. Gallery Oldham, Greaves Street, Oldham OL1 1AL Follow the Countryside Code T: 0161 770 3064 Guard against fires, respect plants and E: [email protected] animals. Keep your dogs under close www.visitoldham.com control, stick to public paths across farmland and consider other people. Saddleworth Museum, Art Gallery and Visitors Centre Step on to public transport High Street, Uppermill, OL3 6HS Walking, cycling, riding and canal trips T: 01457 870336 are a great way to explore the area. E: [email protected] Help to reduce congestion, protect Brownhill Countryside Centre the environment and support the Wool Road, Dobcross, local community. Oldham OL3 5PB Stay, eat and buy local T: 01457 872598 Enjoy all that Saddleworth has to offer E: [email protected] by staying overnight in one of our hotels, guest houses or self-catering Local bus and rail information accommodation. T: 0871 200 2233 www.gmpte.com Sample local produce at the farmers market or pop in to one of our great pubs, cafes or restaurants. The Stepping Stones Uppermill Published by Oldham Council When you have finished with this leaflet, please recycle it. T: 0161 770 3064 E: [email protected] All information correct at time of going www.visitoldham.com to press. Published May 2011. 6. Ladcastle Quarries – dominate the west side of the village 7. Brownhill Countryside Centre - Built in Uppermill Trail and now appear as a natural feature, tons of stone were 1916 as stables and a transport depot for excavated for local buildings and roads from the turn of the Saddleworth Urban District Council. Opening Uppermill – the largest village and 19th century until closing in the 1930s. Ladcastle Road, on 5 July 1982 as a Visitor Centre providing administrative centre of Saddleworth, the site which runs alongside the quarry, offers amazing views of information, advice and changing exhibitions. of the manorial corn mill here originally gave Uppermill and the surrounding countryside. There is also a shop, toilets, picnic area and the village its name. Woollen and then cotton award winning nature garden (accessible for all abilities) with a small woodland, meadow mills followed with the arrival of the canal and S and pond with dipping platform. turnpike roads in the 19th century. ug ar L Trans-shipment a n Shed e 8. Saddleworth Viaduct – bridges the valley 1. Saddleworth Linear – is formed along the To Dobcross as part of the Huddersfield and Manchester route of the former railway named the ‘Loop and Delph Railway which opened in 1849. There are Line’ which ran from Stalybridge to Diggle Huddersfield 23 arches, one of which is a ‘skew’ arch Narrow Canal and was mainly used for goods trains. Opening built at an angle as it crosses the Huddersfield in 1885 the line closed on 3 October 1966 A D Narrow Canal. and is now part of the Pennine Bridleway Garden O R R National Trail. ou Centre L te o O 9. Butterhouse – An example of a weaver’s f D O 2. Ammon Wrigley Statue – commemorates elph River Tame W cottage. As broadcloth weaving expanded Don 7 the life of this local poet, writer, artist and key L in the late 18th century, the house had an historian who recorded all aspects of life in the in e Picnic area additional storey added to accommodate area. He always worked in local mills and more looms. though he achieved fame in his lifetime shunned NHILL LAN 9 it, always preferring a quiet moorland life and OW E BR 10. Ryefields House – built in 1825 by John the odd pint. T 8 6 Bradbury, this was a woollen merchant’s E house. It formerly had a work room on the 3. Huddersfield Narrow Canal – Started in 1794 E R top floor, the front was rebuilt in the 1890s, d d 10 it took 17 years to build due to difficulty in a T 1 o Ryefields and Ryefields Drive added in early 1900. constructing the 3 /4 mile long Standedge R S Drive le t Tunnel. The canal was abandoned in 1944. s s a H ie c r Lane The restoration of the canal started in the d r G 11. St. Chad’s Old School – located on Church a a Playing FielI L 1970s and it eventually re-opened for u Den Road was built in 1862 but had a short life. Q H navigation in 2001. There had been a proposal N Its position was found to be unsuitable and ew in Uppermill in the 1960s to culvert the canal 5 S tre a new school built on Lee Street. The old et C and turn it into a bypass. H building survives as private residences. U R 13 C H C R 4. Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery – o O 12. Saddleworth Church – reached by climbing u AD rt houses both visiting and permanent exhibitions, S Church Road, has stood on this site since t 11 including fascinating displays of the history, . 1215 but has undergone various rebuilding landscape and inhabitants of Saddleworth. works, the last in major one in 1833. Note The Art Gallery showcases the best local e 14 in 3 the stone posts of the village stocks in the and regional contemporary art. L y Church yard. a 4 12 w il 2 a Car parking 5. St Chad’s House and gardens – which now R Car parking 13. Willowbank – now flats converted in 1988 serves as Uppermill Library and the park, were 1 from Dam Head Mill built in the 1850s on the originally owned by the Shaw family occupying site of an earlier mill of 1780. The mill dam the site from the early 18th century. The farm is supplied with water from springs as far was rebuilt in 1798 and in the 1840s the front away as Diggle. rebuilt by George Shaw who was a local D C A a r r R architect who incorporated various follies. u 14. Saddleworth Civic Hall – serves as the O L s The site was renamed St Chad’s a name R a h n H Key to trails: offices of the Saddleworth Parish Council e il it still retains. l R M o Medium trail and a venue for local events. It was originally A ad Saddleworth Pool opened as the Uppermill Mechanics Institute H and Leisure Centre Long trail D in 1861 serving to help the educational and L To Greenfield social needs of local people. O Play areas.
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