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Skyline of Chadderton, looking towards Oldham in the distance. Following both the Local Government Act 1888 and Local Government Act 1894, local government in England had been administered via a national framework of rural districts, urban districts, municipal boroughs and county boroughs, which (apart from the latter which were independent) shared power with strategic county councils of the ...
This was not carried out, but in 1951 the borough was enlarged to take in 605 acres (2.45 km 2) from Limehurst Rural District, and three years later a further 1,052 acres (4.26 km 2) were added when the rural district was abolished. [10] The County Borough of Oldham was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 and its territory transferred to ...
The OL postcode area, also known as the Oldham postcode area, [2] is a group of sixteen postcode districts in north-west England, within seven post towns. These cover eastern Greater Manchester (including Oldham, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Heywood and Littleborough), plus small parts of east Lancashire (including Bacup) and western West Yorkshire (including Todmorden).
Where a municipal borough had a population of more than 50,000 at the 1881 Census it was created a county borough, with the powers and duties of both a borough and county council. [44] As Oldham had an 1881 population of 111,343 it duly became a county borough on 1 April 1889.
Coldhurst (or more rarely Cold Hurst) is an area of Oldham and an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001 , it had a population of 11,935, [ 1 ] increasing to 13,201 at the 2011 Census. [ 2 ]
In 1951, owing to urbanisation, part of Bardsley was incorporated into the neighbouring Oldham and in 1954, [4] Limehurst Rural District was abolished and the parish of Bardsley was merged with Oldham, Ashton under Lyne and Failsworth [5] and Bardsley became part of the County Borough of Oldham. [6] In 1951 the parish had a population of 1499. [7]
Greater Manchester is a landlocked county spanning 492.7 sq mi (1,276 km 2) (39th largest in England). The Pennines rise along the eastern side of the county, through parts of the boroughs of Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside. The West Pennine Moors, as well as
Under section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972, the council of a district, county or London borough (or county borough in Wales) may change its name, providing the resolution to do so gains two-thirds of the votes at a special meeting. Until 1 April 1978, the council had to have the permission of the Secretary of State, but since that date ...
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