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Population
  
13,201 (2011 Census)

Metropolitan borough
  
Country
  
Metropolitan county
  
OS grid reference
  
SD921058

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Dialling code
  
0161

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Coldhurst (or more rarely Cold Hurst) is an area of Oldham, and an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, it had a population of 11,935, increasing to 13,201 at the 2011 Census. The electoral ward spans most of Oldham's town centre, although the name Coldhurst conventionally applies to the area immediately north of the centre.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Coldhurst was formerly a chapelry within the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, in the Salfordshire hundred.

An old hall existed in the locality, belonging to Abram Crompton, esq, which gave its name to Crompton Street.

Coldhurst is said to have been the scene of an action in the English Civil War, in which the parliamentarians were defeated.

Following the Industrial Revolution, Coldhurst was the site of considerable industry and commerce, including coal mining, cotton spinning and hat manufacture.

Coldhurst is the home of a significant community of South Asian (particularly Bangladeshi) heritage. 37% of the population is non-white and most of the white residents live in "bleak council developments". In 2001, Coldhurst was in the 5% most deprived wards in the United Kingdom.

A photograph of Coldhurst during the Victorian era was used as part of the "Made of Manchester" promotion of the home strip worn by Manchester United F.C. for the 2012-13 season.

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Coldhurst Wikipedia


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