Glodwick
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Glodwick is an area of Oldham
, in Greater Manchester
, England. It is south-east of Oldham town centre.
Glodwick is a multi-ethnic residential area in the south of the Oldham
, home particularly to a large community of Pakistan
is and British Pakistanis.
Glodwick is marked architecturally by Oldham's history with the Industrial Revolution
, particularly cotton spinning
. Much of Glodwick's housing remain as red-brick terraces, built originally as dwellings for Oldham's many cotton mill
workers.
of Lancashire
since the early 12th century
, Glodwick, one of the oldest parts of Oldham, was recorded in 1212 as being one of five parts of the thegn
age estate of Kaskenmoor, which was held on behalf of King John
by Roger de Montbegon
and William de Nevill. The other parts of this estate were Crompton
, Oldham
, Sholver
and Werneth
. Glodwick later formed part of the township
of Oldham within the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham
, in the hundred of Salford
.
In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Glodwick provided a base for many of the cotton mill
s that made Oldham the most productive mill town
in the world. Spinning companies like Samuel Milne, James Collinge & Sons and Bagley & Wright
brought employment to the area.
- large scale rioting said to be fuelled by long-term under-lying racial tensions between local white
and South Asian communities. The rioting gained international media coverage, and were said to be the worst racially-motivated riots
in the United Kingdom for fifteen years prior, briefly eclipsing the sectarian violence seen in Northern Ireland
.
One of Glodwick's best-known features is Alexandra Park
. Another prominent and well-used building is the Glodwick Pool (formerly Glodwick Baths) - a purpose built structure administered by Oldham Community Leisure.
Greengate Street Mosque is Oldham's largest mosque.
St Mark's Church stands on the hill above Oldham at Glodwick. It is the parish church for the area.
(SSSI) known as Lowside Brickworks. The site is only 1.4 hectares (3.5 acres) but has considerable geological interest. It has yielded bivalves from the Carboniferous
period showing how they interacted with the sediment, which also helps understanding of their morphological variation
. Lowside Brickworks is one of 21 SSSIs in the Greater Manchester area.
's frequent 425 service runs through Glodwick to Holts Estate via Abbeyhills and to Fitton Hill via Oldham. First Manchester's 408 service runs an hourly service to Stalybridge
via Abbeyhills and Buckstones via Oldham, Royton
and Shaw
. Bluebird's 410 and 411 services provide a circular service around various parts of east Oldham running along Waterloo Street in Glodwick. During evenings and Sundays, that part of the journey is served by First's 149 service running to Holts Estate via Alt and to Manchester
via Oldham, Moston
and Cheetham Hill
.
The nearest railway station is Oldham Mumps
, (currently closed while work is carried out on the installation of the tram link to Manchester) providing links to Manchester and Rochdale
.
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...
, in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
, England. It is south-east of Oldham town centre.
Glodwick is a multi-ethnic residential area in the south of the Oldham
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of 219,600, and spans . The borough is named after its largest town, Oldham, but also includes the outlying towns of Chadderton, Failsworth, Royton and Shaw and Crompton, the village of...
, home particularly to a large community of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
is and British Pakistanis.
Glodwick is marked architecturally by Oldham's history with the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times...
, particularly cotton spinning
Spinning (textiles)
Spinning is a major industry. It is part of the textile manufacturing process where three types of fibre are converted into yarn, then fabric, then textiles. The textiles are then fabricated into clothes or other artifacts. There are three industrial processes available to spin yarn, and a...
. Much of Glodwick's housing remain as red-brick terraces, built originally as dwellings for Oldham's many cotton mill
Cotton mill
A cotton mill is a factory that houses spinning and weaving machinery. Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution....
workers.
History
Lying within the historic county boundariesHistoric counties of England
The historic counties of England are subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans and in most cases based on earlier Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and shires...
of Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
since the early 12th century
History of Lancashire
The History of Lancashire begins with its establishment as a county of England in 1182, making it one of the youngest of the historic counties of England.-Early history:In the Domesday Book, some of its lands had been treated as part of Yorkshire...
, Glodwick, one of the oldest parts of Oldham, was recorded in 1212 as being one of five parts of the thegn
Thegn
The term thegn , from OE þegn, ðegn "servant, attendant, retainer", is commonly used to describe either an aristocratic retainer of a king or nobleman in Anglo-Saxon England, or as a class term, the majority of the aristocracy below the ranks of ealdormen and high-reeves...
age estate of Kaskenmoor, which was held on behalf of King John
John of England
John , also known as John Lackland , was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death...
by Roger de Montbegon
Roger de Montbegon
Roger de Montbegon was a landowner in northern England , Baron of Horneby, and one of the Magna Carta sureties....
and William de Nevill. The other parts of this estate were Crompton
Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, north of Oldham, southeast of Rochdale, and to the northeast of the city of Manchester...
, Oldham
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...
, Sholver
Sholver
Sholver is an area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. An elevated, residential area, it lies near the middle of the Oldham part of the valley of the River Beal, northeast of Oldham's commercial centre, nearly at the northeastern-most extremity of the town, by open countryside close to the...
and Werneth
Werneth, Greater Manchester
Werneth is an area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is west-southwest of Oldham's commercial centre and one of Oldham's most ancient localities.-History:...
. Glodwick later formed part of the township
Township (England)
In England, a township is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church...
of Oldham within the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham
Prestwich-cum-Oldham
Prestwich-cum-Oldham was an ancient ecclesiastical parish of the hundred of Salford, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England...
, in the hundred of Salford
Salford (hundred)
The hundred of Salford was an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, in Northern England. It was sometimes known as Salfordshire, the name alluding to its judicial centre being the township of Salford...
.
In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Glodwick provided a base for many of the cotton mill
Cotton mill
A cotton mill is a factory that houses spinning and weaving machinery. Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution....
s that made Oldham the most productive mill town
Mill town
A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories .- United Kingdom:...
in the world. Spinning companies like Samuel Milne, James Collinge & Sons and Bagley & Wright
Bagley & Wright
Bagley & Wright was a spinning, doubling and weaving company based in Oldham, Lancashire, England. The business, which was active from 1867 until 1924, 'caught the wave' of the cotton-boom that existed following the end of the American Civil War in 1865 and experienced rapid growth in the United...
brought employment to the area.
Riots
In May 2001, Glodwick was the centre of controversy as it was at the heart of the Oldham RiotsOldham Riots
The Oldham riots were a short but intense period of violent rioting which occurred in Oldham, a town in Greater Manchester, England, in May 2001...
- large scale rioting said to be fuelled by long-term under-lying racial tensions between local white
White people
White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin...
and South Asian communities. The rioting gained international media coverage, and were said to be the worst racially-motivated riots
Race riot
A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil disorder in which race is a key factor. A phenomenon frequently confused with the concept of 'race riot' is sectarian violence, which involves public mass violence or conflict over non-racial factors.-United States:The term had entered the...
in the United Kingdom for fifteen years prior, briefly eclipsing the sectarian violence seen in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
.
Landmarks
Alexandra Park, Oldham
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. The park is located in the Glodwick area of Oldham....
. Another prominent and well-used building is the Glodwick Pool (formerly Glodwick Baths) - a purpose built structure administered by Oldham Community Leisure.
Greengate Street Mosque is Oldham's largest mosque.
St Mark's Church stands on the hill above Oldham at Glodwick. It is the parish church for the area.
Lowside Brickworks
Close to Glodwick is a disused quarry that has been designated as a Site of special scientific interestSite of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
(SSSI) known as Lowside Brickworks. The site is only 1.4 hectares (3.5 acres) but has considerable geological interest. It has yielded bivalves from the Carboniferous
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Mya . The name is derived from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing"...
period showing how they interacted with the sediment, which also helps understanding of their morphological variation
Morphology (biology)
In biology, morphology is a branch of bioscience dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features....
. Lowside Brickworks is one of 21 SSSIs in the Greater Manchester area.
Transport
There are a few bus services that serve the Glodwick area. First ManchesterFirst Manchester
First Manchester is one of the bus companies serving Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West England. It forms part of FirstGroup, a company operating transport services across the British Isles and in North America...
's frequent 425 service runs through Glodwick to Holts Estate via Abbeyhills and to Fitton Hill via Oldham. First Manchester's 408 service runs an hourly service to Stalybridge
Stalybridge
Stalybridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 22,568. Historically a part of Cheshire, it is east of Manchester city centre and northwest of Glossop. With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of...
via Abbeyhills and Buckstones via Oldham, Royton
Royton
Royton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies by the source of the River Irk, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines, north-northwest of Oldham, south-southeast of Rochdale and northeast of the city of Manchester.Historically a...
and Shaw
Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, north of Oldham, southeast of Rochdale, and to the northeast of the city of Manchester...
. Bluebird's 410 and 411 services provide a circular service around various parts of east Oldham running along Waterloo Street in Glodwick. During evenings and Sundays, that part of the journey is served by First's 149 service running to Holts Estate via Alt and to Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
via Oldham, Moston
Moston, Greater Manchester
Moston is a district of Manchester, in North West England, approximately 3 miles north east of the city centre. Historically a part of Lancashire, Moston is a predominantly residential area, with a population of about 12,500 and covering approximately .-History:The name Moston may derive...
and Cheetham Hill
Cheetham Hill
Cheetham Hill is an inner city area of Manchester, England. As an electoral ward it is known as Cheetham and has a population of 12,846. It lies on the west bank of the River Irk, north-northeast of Manchester city centre and close to the boundary with the City of Salford...
.
The nearest railway station is Oldham Mumps
Oldham Mumps railway station
Oldham Mumps Railway Station opened on 1 November 1847 and served the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The station was a primary station located on the Oldham Loop Line north east of Manchester Victoria operated and managed by Northern Rail....
, (currently closed while work is carried out on the installation of the tram link to Manchester) providing links to Manchester and Rochdale
Rochdale railway station
Rochdale railway station serves the town of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. The Manchester and Leeds Railway opened a station serving the town in the 19th century...
.
Notable people
- William JoyceWilliam JoyceWilliam Joyce , nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He was hanged for treason by the British as a result of his wartime activities, even though he had renounced his British nationality...
, fascist politician and Nazi propagandist ("Lord Haw-HawLord Haw-HawLord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English-language propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States...
") was a short-term resident of Glodwick. - Joseph Lees (1748–1824) - regional dialect poet from Glodwick, who wrote Jone o GrinfiltJone o GrinfiltJone o Grinfilt is a poem in the Oldham dialect of English. It was written by a man named Joseph Lees from the Glodwick area of the town in 1805. "Grinfilt" is a dialect pronunciation of Greenfield, a village in the neighbouring parish of Saddleworth. The poem was intended to ridicule country folk...
. He was a hand-loom weaver and schoolteacher accustomed to "study on his seatboard, and when he had thrown a few ideas into rhyme he stopt picking-o'er and wrote it down".