Cloughfold

Human settlement in England
  • Rossendale
Shire county
  • Lancashire
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  • North West
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  • Rossendale and Darwen
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UK
England
Lancashire
53°42′04″N 2°16′05″W / 53.701°N 2.268°W / 53.701; -2.268

Cloughfold is a small hamlet in between the towns of Rawtenstall and Waterfoot in Rossendale, Lancashire, England.

Clough Fold railway station on the Rawtenstall to Bacup Line opened in 1871 and closed when the line closed in 1966.

Notable people

  • Caleb Ashworth (1722–1775) an English dissenting tutor.
  • Agyness Deyn (born 1983), model and actress[1]
  • Sir David James Shackleton (1863–1938) a cotton worker and trade unionist who became the third Labour Member of Parliament in 1902

References

  1. ^ "Agyness is Britain's top model". Rossendale Free Press. 29 November 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
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