Important former cotton town of great antiquity. On Castle Hill is the site of a Saxon castle. Below is Kill Danes, where the Danes are reported to have been slaughtered in great numbers. John Bright, Victorian government minister, was born here in 1811 and it was here, 33 years later, that the Co-operative movement was started, a Pioneers Memorial Museum tells the story. Art gallery. The countryside, particularly the valleys of the Roch and Spodden, and the moors at Blackstone Edge are very attractive.