Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, in the midst of the Pennines and between the waterways Irk and Medlock, 5.3 miles southeast of Rochdale and 6.9 miles upper east of Manchester. It is the authoritative focus of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, which had a populace of 230,800 of every 2015. Generally in Lancashire, and with minimal early history to talk about, Oldham rose to unmistakable quality in the nineteenth century as a worldwide focal point of material make.

It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and among the primary at any point industrialized towns, quickly getting to be "a standout amongst the most critical focuses of cotton and material ventures in England". At its peak, it was the most gainful cotton turning factory town in the world, producing more cotton than France and Germany combined. Oldham's material industry fell into decrease in the mid-20th century; the town's last plant shut in 1998.

The end of material handling in Oldham discouraged the neighborhood economy. Today Oldham is a prevalently private town, and the change of the town focus is the focal point of an undertaking for changing Oldham into a middle for further training and the performing arts. It is, nonetheless, still recognized compositionally by the surviving cotton factories and different structures related with that industry. The town has a populace of 103,544 and a zone of around 26 square miles.