Greater Manchester (140 pages found in this category)


Combermere Colliery

Combermere Colliery was sunk by the Tyldesley Coal Company on the Manchester Coalfield after 1867 in Shakerley, Tyldesley in Lancashire, England.

Cottonopolis

The nickname given to Manchester, the world's first industrial city, a metropolis centred on cotton trading.

Damhouse

Grade II* listed building in Tyldesley but considered to be in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium, and, since restoration in 2000, houses offices, a clinic and tearooms.

Dicky Beefs

Redirected to New Hall moat.

Diggle

One of several villages in the Saddleworth parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester

Dovestone Reservoirs

Dovestone and its associated reservoirs occupy the valleys of the Greenfield and Chew Brooks above the village of Greenfield, on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester.

Edward Ormerod

English mining engineer and inventor who worked at Gibfield Colliery in Atherton, Lancashire where he devised and tested his safety device, the Ormerod safety link or detaching hook.

Ellenbrook

Residential suburb of Worsley in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.

Ellenbrook Chapel

Redirected to St Mary the Virgin's Church, Ellenbrook.

Ellenbrook tramway

A tramway built by the Bridgewater Trustees in the 1830s to transport coal to the Bridgewater Canal.