Shuttleworth is a

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at the northeastern extremity of the

Metropolitan Borough of Bury The Metropolitan Borough of Bury is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is north of Manchester, to the east of Bolton and west of Rochdale. The borough is centred around the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury but also ...

, in

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, England. It lies amongst the

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, north of Bury and south of Edenfield; Scout Moor Wind Farm lies to the immediate east. Effectively a suburb of

Ramsbottom Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 17,872. Historically in Lancashire, it lies on the River Irwell in the West Pennine Moors, north-west of Bur ...

, the

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divides Shuttleworth from the main core of that town.

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a part of

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, the name Shuttleworth derives from the

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''scyttels'' and ''worth'' meaning a gated enclosure. The first element refers to a bar. It was documented as Suttelsworth in 1227 and Shuttelesworthe in 1296. From the

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, Shuttleworth lay within the

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

of Walmersley (sometimes called Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth) in the

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of Bury, and hundred of Salford. Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth was made a

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in 1866. From 1883 the Shuttleworth area was administered as part the

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of Ramsbottom, with the parish boundary between Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth and Ramsbottom being adjusted to match the local government district boundary in 1894. Shuttleworth is bounded to the south by Holcombe Brook and Summerseat; to the north by Edenfield, Irwell Vale; to the west by Holcombe and Ramsbottom and to the east by Stubbins, Turn Village and Shuttleworth-cum-Turn. In the 1990s, Manchester drag queen Foo Foo Lammar lived in Shuttleworth."Foo Foo sees the funny side." ''Lancashire County Publications (England)'', April 16, 1999. '' NewsBank: Access Global NewsBank''. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWGLNB&docref=news/10D8753B5D6964E1.

References

Notes Bibliography * Villages in Greater Manchester Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury Ramsbottom {{GreaterManchester-geo-stub