Lees
Lees is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, amongst the Pennines east of the River Medlock, 1.8 miles east of Oldham, and 8.2 miles northeast of Manchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 12,600 residents
- Description: village in Greater Manchester, UK
- Also known as: “Lees, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Thomas and St Agnes Church.
Church of St Thomas
Church
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The Church of St Thomas is an Anglican parish church on West Street in Lees, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springhead and Austerlands.
Springhead
Suburb
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Springhead is a suburban area in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.
Austerlands
Suburb
Austerlands is a suburban area of Saddleworth, a civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It occupies a hillside amongst the Pennines, between the villages of Lees and Scouthead.
Alt
Suburb
Alt is a semi-rural and suburban area lying on the borders of the towns of Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester. Alt was formerly a civil parish within the Limehurst Rural District until its abolition in 1954 when its territory was divided between the towns of Oldham and Ashton Under Lyne.
Lees
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.53826° or 53° 32′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.07335° or 2° 4′ 24″ westPopulation
12,600Elevation
607 feet (185 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LSEOpen location code
9C5VGWQG+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 30009187OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lees” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lees (Manchester Handia)”
- Basque: “Lees”
- Dutch: “Lees, Greater Manchester”
- French: “Lees”
- Irish: “Lees”
- Japanese: “リーズ”
- Japanese: “広域マンチェスター、リーズ”
- Polish: “Lees (Anglia)”
- Polish: “Lees”
- Spanish: “Lees (Gran Mánchester)”
- Spanish: “Lees”
- Swedish: “Lees, Greater Manchester”
- Welsh: “Lees, Manceinion Fwyaf”
- Welsh: “Lees”
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