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Road to Rochdale
Our "Road to Rochdale" information page is where you can find information on our Rochdale
Please read on and watch the video to learn more about what the area has to offer and the role of PCA in developing our primary care workforce.
15 Things to do in and around Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale
Now within Greater Manchester, Rochdale has been around since at least the 11th century when it was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
The town rose to prominence through the woollen trade in the 18th century and then went into overdrive as a textile manufacturing mill town in the 19th century.
A striking monument to the boom days is the town hall, one of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the UK. The modern Co-operative Movement, also a product of the industrial period, was born in Rochdale in 1844 when the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers set up a shop in the town, and the very building has been turned into a museum.
This is Rochdale!
The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Rochdale, but spans a far larger area which includes the towns of Middleton, and Heywood.
The borough was formed in 1974 as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 and is an amalgamation of six former local government districts. It was originally proposed that the borough include the neighbouring town of Bury and disclude Middleton; Bury, however, went on to form the administrative centre for the adjacent Metropolitan Borough of Bury.