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
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Caleb Ashworth
Caleb Ashworth, D.D. (1722–1775) was an English dissenting tutor.
Life
Ashworth was born at Cloughfold, Rossendale, Lancashire, in 1722. His father, Richard Ashworth, who died in 1751, aged eighty-four, was a lay preacher among the Particula ...
(1722–1775) an English
dissenting tutor
The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, those who did not conform to the Church of England. They formed a significant part of England's ed ...
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Sir David James Shackleton (1863–1938) a cotton worker and trade unionist who became the third Labour Member of Parliament in 1902
Villages in Lancashire
Geography of the Borough of Rossendale
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