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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Coldhurst like this:
COLDHURST, a chapelry in Oldham township, Prestwich parish, Lancashire; in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Manchester. It was constituted in 1844. Post town, Oldham. Pop., 3, 046. Houses, 555. The living is a vicarage in-the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good.
Coldhurst is now part of OLDHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how OLDHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Coldhurst itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coldhurst, in Oldham and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26027
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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