Butterworth Hall Brook

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Butterworth Hall Brook is a water course in Greater Manchester, North-West England, which flows through the village of Milnrow and is a tributary of the River Beal.

Course

Rising at Tunshill, just south of Tunshill Farm, where it is almost immediately fed by a small streamlet, the brook flows in a south-westerly direction towards Milnrow, is culverted under the M62 Motorway, then runs along the eastern boundary of Tunshill Golf Course, then down a clough through Claylands Head, to the hamlet of Butterworth Hall. Flowing past Good Intent, it is again culverted beneath Church Terrace before passing under Bilson Bridge on Newhey Road, joining the River Beal, behind Milnrow Precinct. The brook falls 55m.(180 ft.) and barely exceeds 2 km.(1 1/4m.) in length.Ordnance Survey Greater Manchester sheet SD91SW 1979, Sheet SD91 "Littleborough" 1972

History

Butterworth Hall Brook is named after the hamlet of Butterworth Hall, which surrounded the original manorial hall of the ancient township of Butterworth.Henry Fishwick History of the Parish of Rochdale (Rochdale & London) 1889 In 1867 three men were drowned in Tunshill Colliery, close to the source of the brook, when underground waters feeding the brook broke through old mine workings.Robert Mattley (compiler) Annals of Rochdale (Rochdale) 1889. A photo of the Victoria Coal Pit at Tunshill is shown in Tim Hignett Milnrow & Newhey: A Lancashire Legacy (Geo.Kelsall, Littleborough) 1991 p15 Part of the stream bed below Claylands Head, paved with setts, once formed a bridleway called Water Lane.Hignett, above,p15 This was the start of two packhorse routes over the Pennines via Tunshill - the Rapes Highway and the Readycon Gap route over Bleakedgate Moor.Keith Parry Trans Pennine Heritage: Hills, People and Transport (Newton Abbot, London & Pomfret,Vt.) 1981, Chapters 1 & 2 After serious flooding, the brook was channeled alongside the road, which retains the name of Water Lane.{{Cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/ancient-flooded-highway-finally-runs-986871|title = Ancient flooded highway finally runs its course|date = 13 August 2007}}

Gallery

File:Butterworth Hall Brook.JPG|Upstream from the M62

File:Butterworth Hall Brook Claylands Head.JPG|Downstream from Claylands Head

File:Butterworth Hall Brook 1.JPG|Water Lane upstream

File:Butterworth Hall Brook Milnrow.jpg|Milnrow Precinct

File:Butterworth Hall Brook River Beal.JPG|Confluence with River Beal

References

Category:Rivers of Milnrow and Newhey

Category:Rivers of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale

Category:Rivers of Greater Manchester