Oldham
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is named after its largest town, Oldham. The borough had a population of 251,560 in 2024, making it the sixth-largest district by population in Greater Manchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: metropolitan borough with 233,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England
- Also known as: “Metropolitan Borough of Oldham”
- Neighbors: Tameside
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Boundary Park and Gallery Oldham.
Boundary Park
Stadium
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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.
Gallery Oldham
Art gallery
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Gallery Oldham is a free-to-view public museum and art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.
Alexandra Park
Park
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Alexandra Park is a public park in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It was created in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861–1865 as an attempt to keep local textile workers employed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oldham and Tameside.
Oldham
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Oldham is a former textile town in Greater Manchester, 7 miles northeast of city centre in the foothills of the Pennines. The main reason to visit is to explore the villages and valleys leading into the Pennines. In 2011 the population was over 96,000.
Tameside
Tameside is a borough on the east side of Greater Manchester, with Ashton-under-Lyne its main town. There are over 300 listed buildings in Tameside and three Scheduled Ancient Monuments, including Buckton Castle. In 2019 the population was 226,000.
Coppice
Suburb
Coppice is a locality and urban/suburban area the town of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is located to the south of Oldham town centre and is contiguous with other areas of Oldham including Hathershaw, Werneth, Hollins, Copster Hill and Primrose Bank.
Oldham
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Oldham” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Олдэм”
- Breton: “Oldham”
- Bulgarian: “Олдъм”
- Catalan: “Oldham”
- Cebuano: “Borough of Oldham”
- Chinese: “Oldham”
- Chinese: “奧爾德姆都市自治市”
- Dutch: “Oldham”
- French: “District métropolitain d’Oldham”
- French: “district métropolitain de Oldham”
- German: “Metropolitan Borough of Oldham”
- Irish: “Oldham”
- Italian: “Borgo metropolitano di Oldham”
- Italian: “Metropolitan Borough of Oldham”
- Japanese: “オールダム大都市圏特別区”
- Japanese: “メトロポリタン・バラ・オブ・オールダム”
- Korean: “올덤 도시 자치구”
- Latvian: “Oldema (boro)”
- Latvian: “Oldema”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oldham (koān)”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Oldham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oldham”
- Norwegian: “Oldham”
- Persian: “کلانشهر مستقل اولدهام”
- Polish: “Metropolitan Borough of Oldham”
- Russian: “Олдем”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oldham”
- Slovenian: “Oldham”
- Spanish: “distrito metropolitano de Oldham”
- Spanish: “Distrito metropolitano de Oldham”
- Swedish: “Metropolitan Borough of Oldham”
- Swedish: “Oldham”
- Turkish: “Oldham Metropoliten Borough”
- Ukrainian: “Олдем”
- Urdu: “میٹروپولیٹن بورو اولڈھم”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Oldham”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Derker tram stop and Oldham Mumps railway station.
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