| LC control no. | n 81007332 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Rochdale (England) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | England--Rochdale |
| Variant(s) | Rochdale, Eng. Rochdale (Greater Manchester) Borough of Rochdale (England) Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale (England) |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | Greater Manchester (England) |
| Found in | Municipal yrbk., 1981: p. 1116 (Rochdale (M) Borough (Greater Manchester)) BL hdg. (Rochdale (England)) Foreign names information bulletin, July 31, 2001 (former name: none; new name: Rochdale [short form], Borough of--ADM1, 53°35ʹN 02°10ʹW (UKL2)) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 53°37ʹ00ʺN 002°09ʹ00ʺW) Wikipedia, viewed 22 May 2015 (Rochdale; large market town in Greater Manchester, England; lies at the foothills of the South Pennines on the River Roch, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) north-northwest of Oldham, and 9.8 miles (15.8 km) north-northeast of the city of Manchester; historically a part of Lancashire; in 1856 Rochdale was incorporated as a municipal borough; following the Local Government Act 1888, Rochdale became the County Borough of Rochdale, exempt from the administration of Lancashire County Council; under the Local Government Act 1972, the town's autonomous county borough status was abolished; municipal boroughs of Middleton and Heywood and Littleborough, Milnrow and Wardle urban districts are now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, one of the ten metropolitan boroughs in Greater Manchester) Collins Britain atlas and gazeteer, 1999 (Rochdale, Gt. Man.; town, 10m/16km NE of Manchester; former cotton town on River Roch) |
| Geographic area code | e-uk-en |
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