Cloughfold

Cloughfold
Bacup Road
Cloughfold Location within Rossendale Show map of the Borough of Rossendale Cloughfold Location within Lancashire Show map of Lancashire
OS grid reference	SD823227
District	Rossendale
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ROSSENDALE
Postcode district	BB4
Dialling code	01706
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Rossendale and Darwen
List of places UK England Lancashire 53°42′04″N2°16′05″W / 53.701°N 2.268°W / 53.701; -2.268

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

• Caleb Ashworth (1722–1775) an English dissenting tutor. ^[1]
• Sir David Shackleton (1863–1938) a cotton worker and trade unionist who became the third Labour MP in 1902 until 1910. He was MP for Clitheroe. He later became a senior civil servant.
• Agyness Deyn (born 1983), model and actress ^[2]

References

1. Gordon, Alexander (1885). "Ashworth, Caleb"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 02. pp. 186–187.
2. "Agyness is Britain's top model". Rossendale Free Press . 29 November 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2024.