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A SADDLEWORTH
QUIZ -
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1
Where does the name Delph originate from?
(a)
a monastery (b)
an old mill (c)
a cooking implement
2
There is a cross on the hill above Dovestone’s Reservoir
– whose name is on it?
3
Where is there a rock in Saddleworth associated with Red
Indians?
4
What cut doesn’t need a knife?
5
What was the ‘Delph Donkey’?
6
There
was once a monastery in Saddleworth – where was it?
(a)
Grasscroft
(b)
Grange
(c) Grotton
7
7
What
river starts in Saddleworth and eventually joins with the River
Mersey?
8
8
In which
village is its source?
9
What family originated from Saddleworth could now be
associated with a lot of chewing?
10
Where was the ‘Saddleworth Palace’ and what was it –
you might have enjoyed a film and you could get petrol there?
11
11
How many
cinemas have there been in Saddleworth?
12
The family that started what was for a time the biggest
engineering works in the world based in Oldham originated in
Saddleworth – what was there name and where did they live –
it’s marked by a blue plaque
13
How many arches has Saddleworth Viaduct got
(a)
18
(b)
30
(c)
26
14
The biggest waterwheel in England was located in which
village?
(a)
Uppermill
(b) Greenfield
(c)
Diggle
15
Whose name is associated with the Dinner Stone?
16
The canal tunnel at Standedge on the Huddersfield Narrow
Canal is in the Guinness Book of Records – why?
17
17
Saddleworth used to have Golden Eagles nesting in the
area – in which village where they last seen?
(a)
Greenfield (b)
Castleshaw (c) Denshaw
18
18
Where would
you have got your divi from locally?
19
19
Where in
Saddleworth would you enter the world of Peter
Pan?
20
20
Where is the
lowest point in Saddleworth?
21
If you were a sailor what pub in Saddleworth might you have
avoided – the pub in question is now closed?
22
Where might you see and hear Delph?
23
In what year
did the Wednesday Market start in Uppermill?
(a)
1876
(b)
1922
(c)
1937
24
The annual rushbearing relates to a part of the church?
(a)
the alter
(b)
the floor
(c)
the roof
25
What famous Olympian swimmer swam in Saddleworth Swimming
Galas in the 1920s?
(a)
Henry James (b) Henry
Taylor (c)
James Taylor
26
What rocked the Rocking Stone in Greenfield?
27
In 1918 during a War Weapons Week Saddleworth gained the record
for raising more money per head of population than anywhere else
– how much was raised?
(a)
£22,500
(b)
£125,000
(c)
£252,000
28
Name one film that has featured Saddleworth in?
29
During the Second World War – what were the ‘Busy
Bees’ in Saddleworth?
(a)
beekeepers (b)
group allotments (c)
group knitters
30
Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery are on the site of which
mill?
31
What was the Moorcock Inn, Greenfield infamous for?
32
Why is Charles Dickens reputed to have visited Saddleworth?
33
Which inn in Saddleworth did Queen Victoria stay at?
34
What is a goit – in the non-medical term?
35
What was the name of the pub that the Bradbury originated
from that went on to produce the first sewing machine to be made
in Europe – you may have need to oil its hinges ?
36
36
Where
in Saddleworth might you fall of the edge of the world?
37
What is the oldest pub in Saddleworth ?
38
Before the age of North Sea gas where did our gas used to
come from?
39
Where was the first co-op in Saddleworth?
40
What are the three other reservoirs in Greenfield apart
from Dovestones?
1 X POINT FOR EVERY
CORRECT QUESTION
TOTAL SCORE (out of 40)
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