Tottington, Greater Manchester
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Tottington is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury in Greater Manchester, England, on the edge of the West Pennine Moors.[2]
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Tottington | |
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Tottington Methodist Church | |
Location within Greater Manchester | |
Population | 9,783 (2011 Census)[1] |
OS grid reference | SD775130 |
• London | 173 mi (278 km) |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | BURY |
Postcode district | BL8 |
Dialling code | 01204 |
Police | Greater Manchester |
Fire | Greater Manchester |
Ambulance | North West |
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Historically in Lancashire, it was a medieval fee, a type of royal manor, which encompassed several townships from Musbury and Cowpe with Lench in the north to Affetside in the west and Walshaw in the south west, while the township of Tottington itself was a small agricultural settlement surrounded by open farmland and hunting ground where deer and wild boar were found.[3]