Royton
Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011. Close to the source of the River Irk, near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is 2 miles northwest of Oldham, 3 miles southeast of Rochdale and 8 miles northeast of Manchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 23,000 residents
- Description: town in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Royton, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Royton Town Hall and Boundary Park.
Royton Town Hall
Town hall
Royton Town Hall is a municipal building in Rochdale Road, Royton, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall was the headquarters of Royton Urban District Council.
Boundary Park
Stadium
Photo: Narniauk, Public domain.
Boundary Park is a football stadium in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Its name originates from the fact that it lies at the northwestern extremity of Oldham, with Royton and Chadderton lying immediately north and west respectively.
Church of St Anne
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Anne is an Anglican parish church on St Anne's Avenue in Royton, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coldhurst and Chadderton.
Coldhurst
Suburb
Coldhurst is an area of Oldham and an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, it had a population of 11,935, increasing to 13,201 at the 2011 Census.
Chadderton
Town
Photo: Jeremy Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, 1 mile west of Oldham, 5 miles south of Rochdale and 6 miles north-east of Manchester.
Shaw
Town
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shaw is a ward and part of the built-up area in the civil parish of Shaw and Crompton, in the Oldham district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. Shaw is situated 1½ miles northeast of Royton.
Royton
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Shaw and Crompton, Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.56525° or 53° 33′ 55″ northLongitude
-2.12361° or 2° 7′ 25″ westPopulation
23,000Elevation
525 feet (160 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RTNOpen location code
9C5VHV8G+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 27329901OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Royton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Royton”
- Basque: “Royton”
- Bengali: “রয়টন”
- Bulgarian: “Ройтон”
- Catalan: “Royton”
- Cebuano: “Royton”
- Chinese: “罗伊登”
- Chinese: “羅伊登”
- Chinese: “羅伊頓”
- Dutch: “Royton”
- French: “Royton”
- Hebrew: “רוייטון”
- Irish: “Royton”
- Italian: “Royton”
- Japanese: “ロイトン”
- Ladin: “Royton (Lancashire)”
- Ladin: “Royton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Royton”
- Persian: “رویتن”
- Polish: “Royton”
- Russian: “Ройтон”
- Spanish: “Royton (Gran Mánchester)”
- Spanish: “Royton”
- Swedish: “Royton”
- Welsh: “Royton”
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