Todmorden to Littleborough along the Rochdale canal.

 Saturday 25th April 2026.

This post is just for my records as a reminder of doing this walk along the Rochdale canal. 

We actually did this route previously on 4th November 2025 so this link here will take readers to the post if required. 

We decided to do this walk again for a couple of reasons. 1, we were up a bit earlier than usual. 2. It was a lovely day and we had no plans. 3. It is such a lovely walk to do especially on such a fine weather day. 

So we got the bus to Rochdale train station and then within 2 minutes got on the trans Pennine express train from Chester to Leeds which dropped us off in Todmorden. 

The train was absolutely cram packed, ridiculously so. 4 carriages and people were crammed against the doors. For a train doing such a long journey this overcrowding really is unacceptable. We are not a third world country, yet, but I think we are approaching such. 

Off the cattle truck we started by calling into the Boardgame cafe as we did last time. Then away we went. 

We did spot a couple of things on this trip that we didn’t spot before. A London brick and an OS benchmark. 

Not a rare brick but one I hadn’t come across. 

It seems from records that a third of all brick houses in UK are from the London Brick Company. They have been going over 100 years and production peaked post 2nd world war when they produced 16,000,000 bricks per day. It's a miracle this is the first one I had come across.

OS benchmark located at SD93298 23717.