Failsworth

Category
GEOGRAPHY - PLACES

Language
ENGLISH

Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England,[1][2][3] 3.7 miles south-west of Oldham. The orbital M60 motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was 20,680.[4][5] Historically in Lancashire, Failsworth until the 19th century was a farming township linked ecclesiastically with Manchester.[6] Inhabitants supplemented their farming income with domestic hand-loom weaving. The humid climate and abundant labour and coal led to weaving of textiles as a Lancashire Mill Town with redbrick cotton mills. A current landmark is the Failsworth Pole. Daisy Nook is a country park on the southern edge.

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