Counthill School
Counthill School formerly a high-achieving Grammar School, was a mixed gender secondary school for 11- to 16-year-olds in the Moorside area of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.
Counthill School formerly a high-achieving Grammar School, was a mixed gender secondary school for 11- to 16-year-olds in the Moorside area of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. The school had approximately 900 pupils on roll and its motto was Animo Atque Fide. Although sometimes mistakenly thought to be the highest secondary school above sea level in the country, the site sits between 280 and 285 metres, which is lower than others such as Buxton Community School at 320 metres.
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Worth seeing in and around Counthill School
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Boundary Park
Boundary Park is a football stadium in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Its name originates from the fact that it lies at the northwestern extremity of Oldham, with Royton and Chadderton lying immediately north and west respectively.
3.4 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Gallery Oldham
Gallery Oldham is a free-to-view public museum and art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.
2.8 km · art gallery in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Crompton Moor
Crompton Moor is an area of moorland in the South Pennines, in North West England. It lies along the northeastern outskirts of Shaw and Crompton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester.
4 km · mountain in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Parish Church of St Mary with St Peter, Oldham
The Church of St Mary with St Peter, commonly known as Oldham Parish Church, is the Church of England parish church of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It forms part of the Diocese of Manchester, and is a grade II* listed building.
2.7 km · church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St James' Church, Oldham
St James' Church is in Barry Street, Greenacres Moor, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Oldham East, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.
1.7 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church, Oldham
Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church or St Patrick's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It was founded in 1858 and was built in 1870.
3.4 km · catholic church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Oldham War Memorial
Oldham War Memorial is a war memorial in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, comprising a large bronze sculpture group on a granite plinth. It was built to commemorate the men of Oldham who were killed in the First World War.
2.8 km · war memorial in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Town Hall
The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in Yorkshire Street, Oldham, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
2.8 km · town hall in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Alexandra Park
Alexandra Park is a public park in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It was created in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861–1865 as an attempt to keep local textile workers employed.
3.1 km · park in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Royton Town Hall
Royton Town Hall is a municipal building in Rochdale Road, Royton, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall was the headquarters of Royton Urban District Council.
3.2 km · town hall in Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Counthill School
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 27 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 44 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km
- Stations
- Oldham Mumps tram stop, 2.3 km · Oldham Werneth railway station, 3.9 km · Shaw and Crompton tram stop, 2.3 km · Derker tram stop, 1.8 km · Oldham Central tram stop, 2.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Counthill SchoolTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Liverpool → Counthill SchoolTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Counthill SchoolTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Counthill School
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Counthill School. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.
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Next door to Counthill School
Counthill School is 14 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oldhamtown in Greater Manchester, England3 km
- Roytontown in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.1 km
- Shaw and Cromptoncivil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England2.6 km
- Delphvillage in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Shawtown in Shaw and Crompton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England1.2 km
- Leesvillage in Greater Manchester, UK2 km