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Oldham

Oldham is a former textile town in , 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Boundary Park and Gallery Oldham.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in Oldham, , England. Its name originates from the fact that it lies at the northwestern extremity of Oldham, with and lying immediately north and west respectively.

Art gallery
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is a free-to-view public museum and art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in , England.

Hospital
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The is a NHS in the area of Oldham, , . It is managed by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coppice and Chadderton.

Suburb
is a locality and urban/suburban area the town of Oldham, in , . It is located to the south of Oldham town centre and is contiguous with other areas of Oldham including , , Hollins, and Primrose Bank.

Town
Photo: Jeremy Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in the , , England, on the and . It is located in the foothills of the , 1 mile west of Oldham, 5 miles south of and 6 miles north-east of .

Town
is a town in the , , England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011. Close to the source of the , near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is 2 miles northwest of Oldham, 3 miles southeast of and 8 miles northeast of .

Oldham

Latitude
53.5416° or 53° 32′ 30″ north
Longitude
-2.1148° or 2° 6′ 53″ west
Population
111,000
Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ODH
Open location code
9C5VGVRP+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27329894
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641022
Wiki­data ID
Q202628
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oldham” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oldham”
  • Arabic: “أولدم”
  • Arabic: “أولدهام”
  • Arabic: “اولدهام”
  • Aragonese: “Oldham”
  • Armenian: “Օլդեմ”
  • Asturian: “Oldham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oldem”
  • Basque: “Oldham”
  • Belarusian: “Олдэм”
  • Bengali: “ওল্ডহ্যাম”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট মেরি‘স”
  • Bulgarian: “Олдам”
  • Bulgarian: “Олдъм”
  • Catalan: “Oldham”
  • Cebuano: “Oldham (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Oldham”
  • Chinese: “奥尔德姆”
  • Chinese: “奧咸”
  • Chinese: “奧爾德姆”
  • Czech: “Oldham”
  • Danish: “Oldham”
  • Dutch: “Oldham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولدهام”
  • Esperanto: “Oldham”
  • Finnish: “Oldham”
  • French: “Oldham”
  • Galician: “Oldham”
  • Georgian: “ოლდემი”
  • German: “Oldham”
  • Greek: “Όλνταμ”
  • Greek: “Όλντχαμ”
  • Gujarati: “ઓલ્ડહામ”
  • Hebrew: “אולדהאם”
  • Hungarian: “Oldham”
  • Icelandic: “Oldham”
  • Indonesian: “Oldham”
  • Irish: “Oldham”
  • Italian: “Oldham”
  • Japanese: “オールダム”
  • Japanese: “セント・メリーズ”
  • Kannada: “ಓಲ್ಡ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Korean: “올덤”
  • Korean: “올드햄”
  • Ladin: “Oldham”
  • Latvian: “Oldema”
  • Latvian: “Oldham”
  • Latvian: “Oldhema”
  • Lithuanian: “Oldamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Oldham”
  • Lithuanian: “Oldhamas”
  • Moksha: “Олдэм”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oldham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oldham”
  • Norwegian: “Oldham”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਲਧਾਮ”
  • Persian: “اولدهام”
  • Polish: “Oldham”
  • Portuguese: “Oldham”
  • Romanian: “Oldham”
  • Russian: “Олдем”
  • Russian: “Олдхэм”
  • Scots: “Oldham”
  • Serbian: “Oldam”
  • Serbian: “Oldham”
  • Serbian: “Олдам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oldham”
  • Silesian: “Oldham”
  • Slovak: “Oldham”
  • Slovenian: “Oldham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اولدهام”
  • Spanish: “Oldham”
  • Swahili: “Oldham”
  • Swedish: “Oldham”
  • Tamil: “ஓல்டுகாம்”
  • Tamil: “காய்லே”
  • Tatar: “Олдем”
  • Telugu: “ఓల్డ్హమ్”
  • Telugu: “ఓల్డ్హామ్”
  • Thai: “โอลดัม”
  • Turkish: “Oldham”
  • Ukrainian: “Олдгем”
  • Ukrainian: “Олдем”
  • Ukrainian: “Олдхем”
  • Urdu: “اولڈھم”
  • Urdu: “اولڈہم”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oldham”
  • Welsh: “Oldham”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧咸”
  • “Oldham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Oldham”. Photo: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 3.0.