Waterhead
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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 12,000 residents
- Description: suburb in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Waterhead, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Holy Trinity and Waterhead Academy.
Waterhead Academy
School
Waterhead Academy is 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 Austerlands and Lees.
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.
Lees
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Waterhead
- Category: locality
- Location: Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.54951° or 53° 32′ 58″ northLongitude
-2.07457° or 2° 4′ 28″ westPopulation
12,000Open location code
9C5VGWXG+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 11368115594OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7974126
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Waterhead” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ওয়াটারহেড”
- Chinese: “瓦特赫德”
- Dutch: “Waterhead, Greater Manchester”
- French: “Waterhead”
- German: “Waterhead”
- Gujarati: “વોટરહેડ”
- Japanese: “ウォ―ターヘッド”
- Kannada: “ವಾಟರ್ಹೆಡ್”
- Korean: “워터헤드”
- Lithuanian: “Vaterhedas”
- Portuguese: “Waterhead”
- Russian: “Уотерхэд”
- Spanish: “Waterhead”
- Tamil: “வாட்டர்ஹெட்”
- Telugu: “వాటర్హెడ్”
- Urdu: “واتیرہیاد”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Holy Trinity Parish Hall and Waterhead Park.
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