Oldham
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 2024 the population was 205,500.
- Type: Town with 111,000 residents
- Description: town in Greater Manchester, England
- Also known as: “Oldhamas”, “Oldhema”, “Όλντχαμ”, “Олдгем”, “Олдхем”, “Олдхэм”, “اولڈھم”, “সেন্ট মেরি‘স”, “ஓல்டுகாம்”, “ఓల్డ్హమ్”, “올드햄”, and “セント・メリーズ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Boundary Park and Gallery Oldham.
Boundary Park
Stadium
Photo: Narniauk, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coppice and Chadderton.
Coppice
Suburb
Coppice is a locality and urban/suburban area the town of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.
Oldham
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5416° or 53° 32′ 30″ north
Longitude
-2.1148° or 2° 6′ 53″ west
Population
111,000
Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB ODH
Open location code
9C5VGVRP+J3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oldham” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oldham”
- Arabic: “أولدم”
- Arabic: “أولدهام”
- Aragonese: “Oldham”
- Armenian: “Օլդեմ”
- Asturian: “Oldham”
- Azerbaijani: “Oldem”
- Basque: “Oldham”
- Belarusian: “Олдэм”
- Bengali: “ওল্ডহ্যাম”
- Bulgarian: “Олдъм”
- Catalan: “Oldham”
- Cebuano: “Oldham (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Oldham”
- Chinese: “奥尔德姆”
- 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”
- Gujarati: “ઓલ્ડહામ”
- Hebrew: “אולדהאם”
- Hungarian: “Oldham”
- Icelandic: “Oldham”
- Indonesian: “Oldham”
- Irish: “Oldham”
- Italian: “Oldham”
- Japanese: “オールダム”
- Kannada: “ಓಲ್ಡ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
- Korean: “올덤”
- Ladin: “Oldham”
- Latvian: “Oldema”
- Lithuanian: “Oldamas”
- Moksha: “Олдэм”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oldham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oldham”
- Norwegian: “Oldham”
- Panjabi: “ਓਲਧਾਮ”
- Persian: “اولدهام”
- Polish: “Oldham”
- Portuguese: “Oldham”
- Romanian: “Oldham”
- Russian: “Олдем”
- Scots: “Oldham”
- Serbian: “Oldam”
- Serbian: “Олдам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oldham”
- Silesian: “Oldham”
- Slovak: “Oldham”
- Slovenian: “Oldham”
- South Azerbaijani: “اولدهام”
- Spanish: “Oldham”
- Swahili: “Oldham”
- Swedish: “Oldham”
- Tamil: “காய்லே”
- Tatar: “Олдем”
- Telugu: “ఓల్డ్హామ్”
- Thai: “โอลดัม”
- Turkish: “Oldham”
- Ukrainian: “Олдем”
- Urdu: “اولڈہم”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oldham”
- Welsh: “Oldham”
- Yue Chinese: “奧咸”
- “Oldham”
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