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Oldham is located high in the south-west of the Pennine mountain range, 7 miles north-east of the City of Manchester, in the north-west of England. It lies along the very edge of the historic Lancashire border, with Yorkshire close to the east.Although Oldham has now lost all of its cotton manufacturing, the town still bears the marks, at least architecturally, of the legacy of its industrial past. A large percentage of the properties in the area are Victorian terraces
Oldham was where Winston Churchill began his political career. It was also the birthplace of the world's first baby to be born by in vitro fertilization- Louise Brown in 1978.