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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 ...
The Coat of Arms of the Oldham County Borough Council, as found at Oldham Police Station. The station predates the merging of Oldham Borough Police into Lancashire Constabulary in 1969, and thus still displays the redundant arms. Prior to 1894, the town council made use of the arms of the Oldham family. The arms were blazoned as:
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.
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).
A map of Greater Manchester, with its 14 parished areas highlighted in red. A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England . There are 14 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester , most of the county being unparished ; Bury , Rochdale , Salford and Stockport are completely ...
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
And in November, Oldham County officials awarded Clore Station final approval to move forward. Family members will now start preparing the land for development, with construction on the first ...
Parks and commons in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham (5 P) R. Rivers of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham (7 P) S. Saddleworth (1 C, 39 P) Shaw and Crompton (1 C ...