The Waggon Inn,
35 Butterworth Hall, Milnrow, Rochdale OL16 3PE
01706 648313
This is a pub I passed early this month (April 2021) on my way back down from the hills around Ogden reservoir. I would never have found it if I had not decided to leave the popular path round the reservoir and follow a new, rocky bridle path that I'd never walked before. It brought me to a concrete tunnel under the M62, which joined a road through Butterworth and to this pub which is in a quiet side road but only 100 yards from the main road and about a mile from Milnrow tram stop.
Butterworth began as a settlement in Anglo Saxon times and was a separate village until the late nineteenth century, when it was absorbed into the borough of Rochdale. It still has the look and feel of a village with this pub in the village centre.
I can't review it because the pubs were still closed when I was here, but checking online it looks like it has reopened under the current Covid restrictions. It serves food but I get the impression customers are best phoning to book in advance as it seems popular.
I plan to walk that bridle path again in the summer, and assuming restrictions have slackened as planned by the government then, I'll make time to drop in and check it properly.
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