| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.653°N -2.294°W |
| Official Name: | Shuttleworth |
| Metropolitan County: | Greater Manchester |
| Metropolitan Borough: | Bury |
| Region: | North West England |
| Constituency Westminster: | Bury North |
| Post Town: | BURY |
| Postcode District: | BL0 |
| Postcode Area: | BL |
| Dial Code: | 01706 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SD805175 |
| Static Image Name: | Shuttleworth, St John's Church.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St John's Church, Shuttleworth |
Shuttleworth is a hamlet at the northeastern extremity of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the South Pennines, 4.3miles north of Bury and 0.9miles south of Edenfield; Scout Moor Wind Farm lies to the immediate east. Effectively a suburb of Ramsbottom, the M66 motorway divides Shuttleworth from the main core of that town.
Historically a part of Lancashire, the name Shuttleworth derives from the Old English scyttels and worth meaning a gated enclosure. The first element refers to a bar. It was documented as Suttelsworth in 1227 and Shuttelesworthe in 1296. From the Middle Ages, Shuttleworth lay within the township of Walmersley (sometimes called Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth) in the ancient parish of Bury, and hundred of Salford. Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth was made a civil parish in 1866. From 1883 the Shuttleworth area was administered as part the local government district of Ramsbottom, with the parish boundary between Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth and Ramsbottom being adjusted to match the local government district boundary in 1894.[1]
Shuttleworth is bounded to the south by Holcombe Brook and Summerseat; to the north by Edenfield, Irwell Vale; to the west by Holcombe and Ramsbottom and to the east by Stubbins, Turn Village and Shuttleworth-cum-Turn.
In the 1990s, Manchester drag queen Foo Foo Lammar lived in Shuttleworth.[2]
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