Smithy Bridge is a suburb of Littleborough in the

Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. Its largest town is Rochdale and the wider borough covers other outlying towns and villages, including Heywood, Greater Manchester, Heywood, Littleb ...

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Manchester. ...

, England.

Hollingworth Lake Hollingworth Lake is a reservoir at Smithy Bridge in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from ...

Country Park is close by. It also has a link to the

Rochdale Canal The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes. The Rochdale is a broad canal be ...

and has its own

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

. It was once a route on the packhorse trip through to Yorkshire. Smithy Bridge was formerly a part of Butterworth.

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Areas of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Villages in Greater Manchester Littleborough, Greater Manchester {{GreaterManchester-geo-stub

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