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Oldham is a large town within Greater Manchester, in North West England. Rising amongst the Pennine hills, 6.9 miles (11.1 km) northeast of the city of Manchester, it is the largest and most populous settlement within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.
Historically part of Lancashire, Oldham rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture. Oldham was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the first ever industrialised towns. At its zenith, it was the single most productive cotton spinning mill town in the world.
Since the mid 20th century, Oldham has lost all of its traditional textile industry, but is marked architecturally by several surviving large cotton mills, and other buildings and infrastructure linked to the sector. A centre for further education and the performing arts, Oldham today is a predominantly residential town, with a total population of 103,544.
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