Summerseat
The Waterside Bar and Restaurant in 2007;
destroyed by 2015 floods
Summerseat is located in Greater Manchester
Summerseat
Summerseat
Location within Greater Manchester
OS grid referenceSD795145
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CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBURY
Postcode districtBL9
Dialling code01706/01204
PoliceGreater Manchester
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53°37′48″N 2°18′32″W / 53.630°N 2.309°W / 53.630; -2.309

Summerseat is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England,[1][2] directly south of Ramsbottom.

History

Historically part of Lancashire, Summerseat lies in the Irwell Valley, on the course of the River Irwell to the north of Bury and along the route of the M66 motorway.

Summerseat railway station on the East Lancashire steam railway is in the village. The village has a Costcutter store and two public houses, the Footballer's[3] and the Hamer's Arms.[4]

The 200-year-old Grade II listed Joshua Hoyles cotton mill on the banks of the Irwell was redeveloped into residential apartments in the 1980s. The Waterside Inn, built on Kay Street Bridge as a creche for the adjacent mill, was also to have been redeveloped as residences[citation needed] but collapsed during a storm in December 2015[5][6] which also damaged the bridge.[7] The bridge has since been rebuilt and the road across it is in use.

The graveyard by Rowlands Methodist Church

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Summerseat.
  1. ^ New Ward Boundaries (200) (PDF), Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2010
  2. ^ Bury – districts and boundaries, Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, retrieved 19 September 2010
  3. ^ "The Footballers Inn". Onion Ring. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Home". Hamer's Arms. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. ^ "UK floods: Homes evacuated amid heavy rain". BBC News. 27 December 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Aerial footage shows 200-year-old pub destroyed as River Irwell floods". Daily Telegraph. 26 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017.
  7. ^ Daniel Hopkins (27 May 2020). "Work begins on repairing Summerseat bridge damaged by floods". Bury Times. Retrieved 20 February 2021.


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