JD Sports warehouse, Rochdale
Introduction
The photograph on this page of JD Sports warehouse, Rochdale by Steven Haslington as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
JD Sports warehouse, Rochdale
Image: © Steven Haslington Taken: 2 Nov 2010
Beyond this cycle lane appears the forthcoming JD Sports warehousing and distribution centre, on a bleak autumnal day in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Work began on this rather enormous warehouse in July 2010 on "Plot T" of the Kingsway Business Park. It is certainly 'the' biggest warehouse to be built in North West England in over a decade (and probably the largest to be built in the UK for years), and is set to span 616,000 sq ft. It will serve as a order fulfillment and distribution centre for JD Sports and its subsiduries Scott, Bank and others. Although being promoted as "Rochdale", I think it may actually fall within the historical bounds of Milnrow as it is on the south side of the Rochdale Canal, and thus within the former Milnrow Urban District. Eitherway, it now surely dominates the Rochdale borough as a whole!
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.607908
Longitude
-2.128276