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    Blackrod is a town and civil parish situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Nestled in the historic County of...
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    after its largest town, Bolton, but covering a larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Westhoughton, and part of the West Pennine...
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    Rivington and Blackrod High School in the North West region of England is a Leverhulme Trust multi-academy comprehensive school. Alongside Harper Green...
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    Blackrod railway station serves the towns of Blackrod and Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is 6.5 miles (10 km ) north west of Bolton railway...
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    Blackrod Town Council is a local authority with limited powers and covers the town and civil parish of Blackrod in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton...
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  • Blackrod is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It contains 13 listed buildings that are recorded in the...
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  • Horwich and Blackrod First Independents (HBFI) is a local political party which was formed by Independent Councillors and a group of local residents in...
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    University of Bolton Stadium. It includes the generally affluent towns of Blackrod, Horwich and Westhoughton in the western half of Bolton borough though...
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  • Blackrod was, from 1872 to 1974, a local government district centred on the village of Blackrod in the administrative county of Lancashire, England. Blackrod...
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  • Bridgeman CE Primary School, Bolton Blackrod CE/Methodist Primary School, Blackrod Blackrod Primary School, Blackrod Blackshaw Primary School, Breightmet...
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    borough councils of Bolton and Farnworth, and the urban district councils of Blackrod, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Lever, Westhoughton and Turton (the latter in...
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    station is at Hindley although Blackrod is only a few yards further distant. Hindley has the more frequent service, whilst Blackrod has the faster service to...
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    the Pilkington Cross, in recognition of the founder of the Rivington and Blackrod High School, James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham and the prominent role...
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    metres from Horwich Parkway railway station situated between Lostock and Blackrod on the Manchester to Preston Line. Football specials used to operate to...
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    To the north, a small brook running into the Douglas divides it from Blackrod. At the 2001 census it had a population of 594. Haigh is derived from the...
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  • Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. He went to Rivington and Blackrod High School and studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama...
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  • in the suburb of Lostock, Bolton. He attended the nearby Rivington and Blackrod High School where he was head boy during sixth form years in Horwich. During...
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    Ashton-in-Makerfield Ashton-under-Lyne Aspull Astley Atherton Audenshaw Blackrod Bolton Bury Cadishead Chadderton Clifton Denton Droylsden Eccles Failsworth...
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    is now the A6 to the west. It is claimed that Agricola built a fort at Blackrod by clearing land above the forest. Evidence of a Saxon settlement exists...
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    seat from the Conservatives. 14 March 2024: Craig Rotheram (Horwich and Blackrod First) resigns; by-election scheduled for 2 May 2024. April 2024: Amjid...
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    Trafford, Chadderton, Middleton, Heywood, Radcliffe, Milnrow, Horwich, Blackrod, Westhoughton, Littleborough, Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Golborne...
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    East Hampshire District Council, Hampshire County Council 7 Horwich and Blackrod First David Grant Horwich Town Council, Bolton Council 6 Morley Borough...
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    Belmont (in Blackburn with Darwen), Rivington (in Chorley), and Horwich and Blackrod (in Bolton). The summit can also be reached via a short walk from the top...
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    it meets the B5408 for Blackrod, becoming the Blackrod By-Pass Road. It meets the B5238, for Horwich, at crossroads near Blackrod railway station. Close...
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    Ladybridge High School Little Lever School Mount St Joseph School Rivington and Blackrod High School St James's Church of England High School St Joseph's RC High...
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  • Ladybridge High School Little Lever School Mount St Joseph School Rivington and Blackrod High School St James's Church of England High School St Joseph's RC High...
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    Wind turbine to represent local opposition to a wind farm. The village of Blackrod, near Bolton in Greater Manchester, holds a popular annual Scarecrow Festival...
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  • Pit located in Chadderton. Anderton Hall, Arley, Blackrod, later became No. 1) Blackrod No 2, Blackrod No 4 Bull Ring, Dark Lane, King Coal, Marklands...
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    Party won 7 seats, Farnworth and Kearsley First won 2 seats, Horwich and Blackrod First won 1 seat, and the Liberal Democrats won 1 seat. After the election...
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  • Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Whitefield Bolton Bolton Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Lever, South Turton, Westhoughton...
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