Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines.
Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Oldham, 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Rochdale and 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Manchester City Centre. Its largest settlement is Shaw.
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Worth seeing in and around Shaw and Crompton
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 - 02Crompton 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.
2.5 km · mountain in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
3.5 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Royton 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.
2.3 km · town hall in Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 05Madina Masjid & Islamic Centre
Madina Masjid & Islamic Centre is a mosque in Oldham, United Kingdom. It was established in 1987, making it one of the oldest mosques in the area.
3.6 km · mosque in Oldham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Tandle Hill
Tandle Hill Country Park is a country park in Royton, Greater Manchester, England. It consists of approximately 110 acres, a combination of beech woodland and open grassland.
3.4 km · hill and country park in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Anne
The Church of St Anne is an Anglican parish church on St Anne's Avenue in Royton, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active church in the Diocese of Manchester and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building.
2.8 km · church in Royton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Milnrow Town Hall
Milnrow Town Hall, formerly known as Milnrow Council Offices, is a former municipal building in Newhey Road, Milnrow, a town in Greater Manchester in England. Built together with an attached fire station, it opened in 1889 and forms a group with the neighbouring former police station and Milnrow's Carnegie Library.
3.3 km · municipal building in Rochdale · Wikipedia - 09Crompton Hall
Crompton Hall was an historic house situated at Crompton Fold in the township of Crompton, Lancashire, and within the historic parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham. Crompton Hall was in the township for hundreds of years.
1.3 km · historic house in Crompton, Lancashire, England · Wikipedia - 10Ogden Reservoir
Ogden Reservoir is a reservoir in the Piethorne Valley, close to Milnrow and Newhey in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, within Greater Manchester, England.
3.8 km · reservoir in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shaw and Crompton
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 28 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 43 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km
- Stations
- Oldham Mumps tram stop, 3.9 km · Derker tram stop, 3.1 km · Newhey tram stop, 2.7 km · Shaw and Crompton tram stop, 200 m · Royton Junction railway station, 2.6 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Shaw and Crompton43 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £5–6
- Liverpool → Shaw and Crompton62 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shaw and Crompton94 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shaw and Crompton
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 Shaw and Crompton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is 14 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oldhamtown in Greater Manchester, England4 km
- Roytontown in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.3 km
- Milnrowtown in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, UK3.9 km
- Denshawvillage in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Shawtown in Shaw and Crompton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England1.3 km
- Newheysuburban village in the Milnrow area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England2.6 km