Question: what does Wardle, Greater Manchester and South Pennines have in common?

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Buckley, Greater Manchester: Buckley is a suburban area within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.  It lies at the northern fringe of Rochdale, along the course of Buckley Brook, "upon an eminence of ground" by the South Pennines.  It is 1.2 mi south-southwest of the village of Wardle and 1.3 mi north-northeast of Rochdale's town centre.  Buckley spans a watercourse, a prison, farmland and residential properties.

Brown Wardle Hill: Brown Wardle is a hill between the village of Wardle, Greater Manchester and the town of Whitworth, Lancashire.  The summit is on the border of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and stands 400m (1,312 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest points in Rochdale and Greater Manchester.  It forms part of the South Pennines, lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.

Wardle, Greater Manchester: Wardle (pop.  7,092) is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.  It lies amongst the foothills of the South Pennines, 1.8 mi east-southeast of Whitworth, 2.5 mi north-northwest of Rochdale and 12 mi north-northeast of the city of Manchester.

Littleborough, Greater Manchester: Littleborough is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.  It is located in the upper Roch Valley by the foothills of the South Pennines, 3 mi northeast of Rochdale and 12.6 mi north-northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 motorway are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge are to the east.  In 2001, Littleborough and its suburbs of Calderbrook, Shore and Smithy Bridge, had a population of 13,807,

Mayor of Greater Manchester: The Mayor of Greater Manchester is a directly elected political post responsible for the strategic government of Greater Manchester, including health, transport, housing, strategic planning, waste management, policing, the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and skills.  The creation of the Mayor of Greater Manchester was agreed between the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and Greater Manchester's 10 district council leaders.  As well as having specific powers, the Mayor chairs the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, also assuming the powers of the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner.  Tony Lloyd was appointed as Interim Mayor for Greater Manchester on 29 May 2015.

Transport for Greater Manchester: Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England.  The organisation traces its origins to the Transport Act 1968, when the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive was established to co-ordinate public transport in and around Manchester.  Between 1974 and 2011, this body was known as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), until a reformation of local government arrangements in Greater Manchester granted the body more powers and prompted a corporate rebranding.  The strategies and policies of Transport for Greater Manchester are set by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and its Transport for Greater Manchester Committee.

Smallbridge, Greater Manchester: Smallbridge is a district of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England.  It lies at the foothills of the Pennines, in the northeast of Rochdale, contiguous with Buckley, and to the south of the village of Wardle.  The Rochdale ward is called Smallbridge and Firgrove.  This ward had a population of 11,469 at the 2011 Census.

South Pennine Moors: The South Pennine Moors are areas of moorland in the South Pennines in northern England.  The designation is applied to two different but overlapping areas, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) covering a number of areas in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester, and a much larger Special Area of Conservation (SAC) covering parts of Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, and small areas of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and North Yorkshire.

Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner: The Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner was the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by the Greater Manchester Police in Greater Manchester.  The post was created on 21 November 2012, following an election held on 15 November 2012, and replaced the Greater Manchester Police Authority.  Upon the creation of a Mayor of Greater Manchester and the inaugural election to that position, the duties of Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner were absolved into the mayoralty and the office itself abolished.  For the entirety of its existence, the commissioner was Labour Party politician Tony Lloyd.  The police and crime commissioner was required to produce a strategic Greater Manchester Police and Crime Plan, setting out the priorities for the Greater Manchester Police, and their work is scrutinised by the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel.  In November 2014 it was announced that the role would be replaced with a directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, and the term of office of the incumbent commissioner was extended to May 2017.

South Pennines: The South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in Northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines.  In the west it includes the Forest of Rossendale and the West Pennine Moors.  It is bounded by the Greater Manchester conurbation in the west and the Yorkshire Dales to the north.  To the east it is fringed by the towns of West and South Yorkshire whilst to the south it is often considered to end at the northern edge of the Peak District national park.

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