Blatchinworth forms with Calderbrook a township in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. The township bears-the name of Blatchinworth-with- Calderbrook, is 3 miles NE of Rochdale, and contains seven hamlets and Littleborough village‹the last with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, and a station on the L. & Y.R. Area, 4781 acres; population, 8384. It has romantic scenery, numerous good residences, a church, several dissenting chapels, an endowed school, cotton and woollen mills, collieries, and rich quarries.
