Oldham, on the Medlock, 7 m. NE. of Manchester, is the largest of the cotton manufacturing towns round that centre; it has 300 cotton mills, and manufactures besides silks, velvets, hats, and machinery; there is a lyceum, and a school of science and art.
Population (circa 1900) given as 184,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Oldenburg * Oldys, William