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Todmorden Rochdale Canal mill town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: mill tokens and brass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1893 historic-map era

Pennine cotton town threaded by the 1804 Rochdale Canal, its mills, gasworks and wharves crowding the valley floor; canal margins and hillside tips carry dense Victorian refuse.

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