Fitton Hill is a large housing estate in the town of
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh ...
in
Greater Manchester
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, contiguous with
Hathershaw
Hathershaw (or, archaically, Hathershaw Moor) is an urban area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It occupies a hillside to the immediate south of Oldham town centre, and is bordered by the districts of Coppice and Fitton Hill to, respecti ...
and
Bardsley.
Lying 2 miles south of Oldham town centre, the Fitton Hill estate was built during the 1950s and 1960s on previously undeveloped moorland with scattered hamlets and farmsteads. The layout of the estate obliterated all traces of the old landscape.
Two churches serve the area, the
Roman Catholic
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church of Holy Rosary and St Cuthbert's,
Church of England
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. The Holy Rosary, opened in 1955, contains a significant mural by
Georg Mayer-Marton
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.
Three primary schools serve the area, Medlock Valley Community School, St Martin's School and Holy Rosary RC Primary. See
List of schools in Oldham
This is a list of schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in the English county of Greater Manchester.
State-funded schools Primary schools
*Alexandra Park Junior School, Oldham
*Alt Academy, Alt
*Bare Trees Primary School, Chadderton
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History
Archaically lying in the Knott Lanes division of
Ashton township, Fitton Hill anciently constituted a farmstead, one of several once lying within the area built upon by the estate. All the hamlets and farms have now gone but place-names such as Deanshut and Marland Fold survived in the guise of street names and schools in the area.
The former Fitton Hill farm dated from as early as 1618 when an Edmund Fitton was recorded as residing there.
From 1894 the area around Fitton Hill was part of the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
of
Bardsley in the
Limehurst Rural District
Limehurst was, from 1894 to 1954, a rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.
History
Ashton-under-Lyne Rural Sanitary District was created in 1872 and included parishes in both Cheshire and Lancashire.F A Youngs Jr., ...
until its abolition in 1954, when its territory was divided between the towns of Oldham and Ashton Under Lyne.
Transport
provides service 426 to Fitton Hill from Oldham.
Stotts Tours (Oldham) provides service 396 to Ashton Under Lyne and to
Middleton via
Chadderton
Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Oldham, south of Rochdale and north-east of Manchester.
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References
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Areas of Oldham