Oldham Below Town was, from 1851 until 1905, a statistical unit used for the gathering and organising of

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information, and output of

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information. It was a sub-district of the larger registration district 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 ...

, in the then

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. Unlike a neighbouring subdistrict of Oldham Above Town, the area was broadly

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and encompassed several residential districts south and west of central Oldham including Westwood. In 1905 the Below Town and Above Town subdistricts were replaced by Oldham Central, Oldham East and Oldham South. Oldham Below Town appears on several

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census transcripts/returns as a place of birth and dwelling for many people of Oldham.

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