Millers Brook

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Millers Brook
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Upstream from Queens Park
Location
Country England
Physical characteristics
Source 
 - locationHeywood
Mouth  
 - location
River Roch, Heywood
 - coordinates
53°36′0.51″N2°12′34.17″W / 53.6001417°N 2.2094917°W / 53.6001417; -2.2094917 Coordinates: 53°36′0.51″N2°12′34.17″W / 53.6001417°N 2.2094917°W / 53.6001417; -2.2094917

Millers Brook is a watercourse in Greater Manchester and tributary of the River Roch. It originates in Heywood and flows through Queens Park to join the River Roch.

Greater Manchester County of England

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a functional city region on 1 April 2011.

River Roch river in Lancashire, United Kingdom

The River Roch is a river in Greater Manchester in North West England, a tributary of the River Irwell, that gives Rochdale its name.

Heywood, Greater Manchester town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England

Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it had a population of 28,205 at the 2011 Census. The town lies on the south bank of the River Roch, 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Bury, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) west-southwest of Rochdale, and 7.4 miles (11.9 km) north of Manchester. Middleton lies to the south, whilst to the north is the Cheesden Valley, open moorland, and the Pennines. Heywood's nickname, Monkey Town, is known to date back to 1857.

Tributaries

Next confluence upstream River Roch Next confluence downstream
Sudden Brook Millers Brook Naden Brook

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