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.- Type: Village with 12,600 residents
- Description: village in Greater Manchester, UK
- Also known as: “Lees, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lees Library Community Hub and Church of St Thomas.
Church of St Thomas
Church
The Church of St Thomas is an Anglican parish church on West Street in Lees, a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springhead and Austerlands.
Springhead
Suburb
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.
Waterhead
Suburb
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.
Lees
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.53826° or 53° 32′ 18″ north
Longitude
-2.07335° or 2° 4′ 24″ west
Population
12,600
Elevation
607 feet (185 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LSE
Open location code
9C5VGWQG+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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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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