Besom Hill

Besom Hill is an electrical substation in Shaw and Crompton, Oldham, England. Besom Hill is situated nearby to Fresh Church, as well as near the golf course Pitch and Putt.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Brushes Clough Reservoir and St Saviour’s Mission Church.

Brushes Clough Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: P.hogg, Public domain.

Brushes Clough Reservoir is on Crompton Moor in Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester, England. It was created in the 19th century by the damming of Leornardin Brook.

St Saviour’s Mission Church

Church

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Saviour’s Mission Church is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Besom Hill.

Shaw National Distribution Centre

Building

Shaw National Distribution Centre was a warehouse distribution centre located in Shaw and Crompton, a town in Greater Manchester, England. It was the main distribution and order processing centre for British retailer The Very Group who used it to store "over… Shaw National Distribution Centre is situated 1 mile northwest of Besom Hill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shaw and Waterhead.

Shaw

Town

Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shaw is a ward and part of the built-up area in the civil parish of Shaw and Crompton, in the Oldham district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England.

Waterhead

Suburb

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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. Waterhead is situated 1½ miles south of Besom Hill.

Delph

Village

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Delph is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies amongst the Pennines on the River Tame below the village of Denshaw, four miles east-northeast of Oldham and 1+3⁄4 miles north-northwest of Uppermill. Delph is situated 1½ miles east of Besom Hill.

Besom Hill

Type: Electrical substation
Categories: building and industry
Location: Shaw and Crompton, Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.571° or 53° 34′ 16″ north

Longitude

-2.06584° or 2° 3′ 57″ west

Open location code

9C5VHWCM+9M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 943853511

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Besom Hill Country Park and Besom Hill Reservoir.

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