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The borough, while independent of Lancashire County Council for local government, ... A map of Oldham, and surrounding area. At (53.5444°, −2.1169°), and ...
Skyline of Chadderton, looking towards Oldham in the distance. Following both the Local Government Act 1888 and Local Government Act 1894, local government in England had been administered via a national framework of rural districts, urban districts, municipal boroughs and county boroughs, which (apart from the latter which were independent) shared power with strategic county councils of the ...
The OL postcode area, also known as the Oldham postcode area, [2] is a group of sixteen postcode districts in north-west England, within seven post towns. These cover eastern Greater Manchester (including Oldham, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Heywood and Littleborough), plus small parts of east Lancashire (including Bacup) and western West Yorkshire (including Todmorden).
Royd mill, built in 1907, [8] and seen here in 1983, was just one of Oldham's peak of 360 textile mills which operated night and day. Much of Oldham's history is concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution; it has been said that "if ever the Industrial Revolution placed a town firmly and squarely on the map of the world, that town is Oldham."
Oldham was anciently a township in the large ecclesiastical parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham. Prior to the 19th century the government of the town was divided between the parish vestry and the county magistrates of Lancashire. The Oldham Police Act 1826 (7 Geo. 4. c. 117) established a board of improvement commissioners. All landowners owning ...
Greenacres / ɡ r iː n ˈ eɪ k ə z /, archaically Greenacres Moor, is an area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.It lies on the west side of the River Medlock opposite the village of Lees.
This is a list of places within the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. ... Map of places in Lancashire compiled from this list; Some Lancashire villages
Waterhead (or archaically, Waterhead Mill), is an area of Oldham, and an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, an upland area in the Pennines, the ward of Waterhead has population of 12,876, [1] decreasing to 12,029 at the 2011 Census.