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Radcliffe is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. [2] It lies in the Irwell Valley 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Manchester and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Bury and is contiguous with Whitefield to the south. The disused Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal bisects the town.
Radcliffe is a town in Lancashire, in the south of the county in the Irwell Valley two and a half miles south-west of Bury and six and a half miles north-northwest of Manchester. It has grown contiguous with Whitefield to the south. The disused Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal bisects the town.
Radcliffe Lancashire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Radcliffe like this: RADCLIFFE, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Bury district, Lancashire.
Radcliffe Tower is the only surviving part of a manor house in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester (historically in Lancashire), England. It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Monument.
It is a station on the East Lancashire section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The village is situated on the old Roman way, Watling Street, and near the Bolton and Bury canal. This parish, which includes the hamlet of Starling, is one of the smallest in the shire.
Historical Description. Radcliffe, a town and a parish in Lancashire. The town stands on the river Irwell, near the influx of the Roach, adjacent to the Bolton and Bury Canal, 2½ miles SSW of Bury, 7 from Manchester, and 193 from London, and is governed by an urban district council of twenty-four members; took its name from a red cliff on the ...
Dec 1, 2016 · Radcliffe Tower. The earliest record of a fortified Pele tower is from 1358. It is probably this ruined structure that remains today, but why was it built ? The 1300s was a time of on going war between England and Scotland.
