Rochdale
Americannoun
noun
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a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester: former centre of the textile industry. Pop: 95 769 (2001)
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a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 159 sq km (61 sq miles)
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William Edgar Oddie was born near Rochdale, Lancashire on 7 July 1941.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Oddie was born in Rochdale, near Manchester, and grew up in Birmingham before attending Cambridge University, where he was a member of the illustrious Footlights comedy troupe.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out on Monday the legal steps she will take to deport the freed ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He is also subject to an exclusion zone which includes Rochdale and Oldham.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
When scarcely twenty, he had addressed the people of Rochdale in favor of the great Reform of 1832, and with the effect of giving him at that early age a local popularity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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