Shuttleworth, Greater Manchester

Shuttleworth
St John's Church, Shuttleworth
Shuttleworth is located in Greater Manchester
Shuttleworth
Shuttleworth
Location within Greater Manchester
OS grid referenceSD805175
• London174 mi (280 km) SSE
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBURY
Postcode districtBL0
Dialling code01706
PoliceGreater Manchester
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UK
England
Greater Manchester
53°39′11″N 2°17′38″W / 53.653°N 2.294°W / 53.653; -2.294

Shuttleworth is a hamlet at the northeastern extremity of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England.[1][2] It lies amongst the South Pennines, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) north of Bury and 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Edenfield; Scout Moor Wind Farm lies to the immediate east. Effectively a suburb of Ramsbottom, the M66 motorway divides Shuttleworth from the main core of that town.

Historically a part of Lancashire, the name Shuttleworth derives from the Old English scyttels and worth meaning a gated enclosure. The first element refers to a bar. It was documented as Suttelsworth in 1227 and Shuttelesworthe in 1296.[3]

From the Middle Ages, Shuttleworth lay within the township of Walmersley (sometimes called Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth) in the ancient parish of Bury, and hundred of Salford. Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth was made a civil parish in 1866. From 1883 the Shuttleworth area was administered as part the local government district of Ramsbottom, with the parish boundary between Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth and Ramsbottom being adjusted to match the local government district boundary in 1894.[1][4]

Shuttleworth is bounded to the south by Holcombe Brook and Summerseat; to the north by Edenfield, Irwell Vale; to the west by Holcombe and Ramsbottom and to the east by Stubbins, Turn Village and Shuttleworth-cum-Turn.

In the 1990s, Manchester drag queen Foo Foo Lammar lived in Shuttleworth.[5]

  1. ^ a b Greater Manchester Gazetteer, Greater Manchester County Record Office, Places names - S, archived from the original on 18 July 2011, retrieved 17 June 2008
  2. ^ Grid reference SD8054917550
  3. ^ Mills 1976, p. 133
  4. ^ Annual Report of the Local Government Board. London. 1895. p. 259. Retrieved 16 October 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ "Foo Foo sees the funny side." Lancashire County Publications (England), April 16, 1999. NewsBank: Access Global NewsBank. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWGLNB&docref=news/10D8753B5D6964E1.