Saddleworth Museum, Oldham

Name: Saddleworth Museum
Address: High St, Oldham, OL3 6HS, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1457 874093

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Saddleworth Museum is an independent museum in Uppermill village, Saddleworth, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is a registered charity and was accredited by the MLA. ()

Coordinates: 53°32'48"N, 2°0'26"W

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High StOldham OL3 6HS United Kingdom

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+44 1457 874093

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Saddleworth Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dovestone Reservoir, Hartshead Pike, Buckton Castle, Lees.

1.7 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Dovestone Reservoir, Peak District
44 min walk • Dovestone Reservoir lies at the convergence of the valleys of the Greenfield and Chew Brooks above the village of Greenfield, on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester, England. The reservoir is on the western edge of the Peak District National Park.
3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, View point
Hartshead Pike, Ashton-under-Lyne
76 min walk • Hartshead Pike is a hill in Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, and its name is associated with the monument on its summit. It overlooks Ashton-under-Lyne, Mossley, Saddleworth, Lees and Oldham. On a clear day you can get views of Manchester, Cheshire and Snowdonia in Wales.
2.5 miS
Forts and castles
Buckton Castle
64 min walk • Buckton Castle was a medieval enclosure castle near Carrbrook in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England. It was surrounded by a 2.8-metre-wide stone curtain wall and a ditch 10 metres wide by 6 metres deep.
2.6 miW
Area
Lees, Oldham
67 min walk • Lees is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, amongst the Pennines east of the River Medlock, 1.8 miles east of Oldham, and 8.2 miles northeast of Manchester.
1.9 miE
Valley
Greenfield Valley, Diggle
48 min walk • Greenfield Valley is a river valley through Saddleworth Moor in England's Peak District National Park. Historically this area of the South Pennines was part of Yorkshire but since 1974 it has been within the eastern edge of the county of Greater Manchester.
2.3 miN
Church
St Thomas' Church
60 min walk • St Thomas' Church, Friarmere, also known as Heights Chapel, is a redundant Anglican church standing on a hillside overlooking the village of Delph, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3 miNE
Hill
Standedge, Diggle
76 min walk • Standedge is a moorland escarpment in the Pennine Hills of northern England between Marsden, West Yorkshire and Diggle, Greater Manchester. Standedge has been a major moorland crossing point since Roman times and possibly earlier.
3.5 miS
Mountain
Harridge Pike, Tameside
90 min walk • Harridge Pike is a hill situated within the boundaries of Stalybridge, Greater Manchester just outside the Peak District National Park. Its western flank rises from the valley of the River Tame to a height of 395 metres.
3.5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Chew Valley, Crowden-in-Longdendale
89 min walk • Chew Valley in Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, England, follows the course of Chew Brook on the western slopes of Black Chew Head to where it joins the River Tame at Greenfield, east of Manchester.
2.5 miW
Park
Strinesdale Reservoir, Oldham
65 min walk • Strinesdale is a reservoir situated on the A62 between Oldham and Delph in Greater Manchester, England. The town of Rochdale is to the north and the town of Oldham to the south. It is fed by the River Medlock. Strinesdale is an area of water and woodland covering approximately 40 acres.
0.6 miS
Canal
Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Huddersfield
17 min walk • The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England. It runs just under 20 miles from Lock 1E at the rear of the University of Huddersfield campus, near Aspley Basin in Huddersfield, to the junction with the Ashton Canal at Whitelands Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne.