Moorside

Moorside is a suburb of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It is located in the north east of the township in a semi-rural locality bordering Saddleworth, contiguous with Sholver which lies to the west.

Type: Suburb
Description: suburb of Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Moorside, Greater Manchester” and “Moorside, Oldham”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of the Holy Trinity and Brushes Clough Reservoir.

Church of the Holy Trinity

Church

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brushes Clough Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: P.hogg, Public domain.

Brushes Clough Reservoir is on Crompton Moor in Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester, England. It was created in the 19th century by the damming of Leornardin Brook.

Waterhead Academy

School

Waterhead Academy was a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The academy was taken out of special measures in June 2016 and was one of the most improved academies in the country in 2016.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterhead and Shaw.

Waterhead

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Waterhead, 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, decreasing to 12,029 at the 2011 Census.

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.

Scouthead

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scouthead is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is traversed by the A62 road, and occupies a hillside amongst the Pennines.

Moorside

Category: locality
Location: Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.56529° or 53° 33′ 55″ north

Longitude

-2.06891° or 2° 4′ 8″ west

Elevation

1,030 feet (314 metres)

Open location code

9C5VHW8J+4C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 29884447

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

2642275

Wikidata ID

Q6908485

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