Coldhurst is an area of 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...

 and an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of 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...

, in Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

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, England. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001

United Kingdom Census 2001

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, it had a population of 11,935. The electoral ward spans most of Oldham's town centre, although the name Coldhurst more usually applies to the area immediately to its north.

Historically

Historic counties of England

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 a part of Lancashire

Lancashire

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, Coldhurst was once constituted a chapelry 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 Salfordshire hundred

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...

.

Coldhurst was the site of considerable industry and commerce, including coal mining

Coal mining

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, cotton spinning and hat manufacture.

An old Hall existed in the locality, belonging to Abram Crompton, Esq, which, although no longer exists today, gives its name to Crompton Street.

Coldhurst is said to have been the scene of an action in the English Civil War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

, in which the parliamentarians

Roundhead

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 were defeated.

Coldhurst is located next to Westwood

Westwood, Greater Manchester

Westwood is an urban area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It occupies a hillside known as North Moor in the western part of Oldham, close to its boundary with Royton and Chadderton...

, and is between Oldham town centre, and the Royal Oldham Hospital

Royal Oldham Hospital

The Royal Oldham Hospital is a NHS hospital in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It forms part of Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and was opened with its present name on 1 December 1989. Its services are commissioned by NHS Oldham....

. Coldhurst is home to the Coldhurst Community Centre.

Coldhurst is the home of a significant community of South Asian (particularly Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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i) heritage. 37% of the population is non-white and most of the white residents live in "bleak council developments".

The area is in the 5% most deprived wards in the United Kingdom.