"Revealing The Roch", The Butts
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"Revealing The Roch", The Butts
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 24 Feb 2016
The work to uncover the River Roch in Rochdale Town Centre is making good progress. The Revealing the Roch project is uncovering two sections of the river, and will expose the historic bridge, parts of which can be traced back to the medieval period. The bridge and sections of river being exposed (on The Butts in front of the HSBC Bank and on the Esplanade close to Barclays Bank) were covered over in the Victorian period and have been hidden from public view for more than a century.
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