Newman Catholic College (Oldham)

Newman Catholic College or, in full, Saint John Henry Newman RC College is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school located in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford. It was opened under the name the Blessed John Henry Newman College; the subsequent canonisation of Cardinal Newman (2019) led to a corresponding change of name. The school was formed in 2011 from the amalgamation of St Augustine of Canterbury RC High School in Werneth, Oldham and Our Lady's R.C. High School in Royton. The merged school was originally based over the two former school sites, but has now moved to a new building. In the Ofsted inspection of February 2013 the school was judged as inadequate. In the inspection of May 2015 it was rated as 'good'. In the most recent inspection of May 2023, the school was rated as 'requires improvement' The school was built through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) route. This means that the school has no direct control over the building stock. The building has had recurrent problems, especially with heating and hot water, which have led to the school having to close on occasion.

Nearby Places View Menu

Nimble Nook

Nimble Nook is a locality in the town of Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. Nimble Nook lies 1.3 miles south west of Chadderton's modern commercial centre on Middleton Road and is located around the junction of Denton Lane and Foxdenton Lane. The arterial road Broadway (A663), constructed in 1925, bisects the area from north to south. Nimble Nook is contiguous with other areas of Chadderton - Butler Green, Whitegate and Cowhill with semi-rural Foxdenton to the west.

Neighbourhood

399 m

Magnet Mill, Chadderton

Magnet Mill, Chadderton is a cotton spinning mill in Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester. It was built by the Magnet Mill Ltd. in 1902, but purchased by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1935. It was later taken over by the Courtaulds Group. Ceasing textile production in December 1966, it was demolished soon after. A suburban residential estate now occupies this site. It was driven by a 2200 hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon & Co, Openshaw, 1903. It had a 27-foot flywheel with 35 ropes, operating at 64½ rpm.

Industrial Landmark

494 m

Oldham Branch Railway

The Oldham Branch Railway was an early railway of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company connecting Oldham to Manchester. The Manchester and Leeds Railway (M&LR) opened its Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch on 31 March 1842 from its mainline, the Manchester to Littleborough railway line (which had opened on 4 July 1839), at Middleton Junction (called at the time Oldham Junction) to Oldham Werneth. This was the first railway to reach Oldham, albeit up a severe incline to Werneth on the west side of the town. The branch had two stations, the junction at Middleton and the terminus at Oldham. Connecting the two stations the branch was 2 miles (3.2 km) long most of which was the Werneth Incline at 1 mile 1,383 yards (2.874 km) long it was one of the steepest passenger worked railway line in Britain, with a gradient of 1:27 for about one mile (1.6 km). The earliest trains to use this line required cable assistance to get to the top of the incline. The method of working was devised by Captain Laws, the company General Manager; it used a balancing load of mineral wagons and a brake van on a reserved track, with a cable passing round a large drum at the head of the incline. Traffic proceeding up the incline would be attached to the rope and drawn up under control by its own locomotive using the descending load to reduce the effort required. The next descending train would be used to draw the balancing load back up the incline. There were sufficient descending trains, both regular service trains and coal trains from Stockfield Colliery to ensure the service ran without much interruption. This arrangement continued until some time between 1851 and 1856, after which ordinary locomotive working was used. The branch carried heavy traffic in its first few years, an average of 750,000 passengers per year, and plans were quickly made for the branch to be extended through the higher ground into Oldham town centre and beyond. A 1 mile (1.6 km) extension was built by the construction of two tunnels with a cutting between them to the only intermediate station at Oldham Central located just beyond the second tunnel and then to Oldham Mumps. The line and stations opened on 1 November 1847. On 12 August 1914 a goods and coal depot was opened at Chadderton. This was at the end of the 1,097 yards (1,003 m) long Chadderton Branch off the Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch approximately 400 yards (370 m) from Middleton Junction. The line from Chadderton Junction to Oldham was closed to regular passengers in 1958 although some diverted services used it in 1960 and completely on 7 January 1963. Middleton Junction closed to passengers on 3 January 1966. The Chadderton goods and coal depot remained open and in use until 1988 (the track was eventually lifted in September 1991).

Landmark Train

507 m

Foxdenton

Foxdenton is a semi rural locality in Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. It is located in the west of Chadderton. Middleton Junction lies to the west with Nimble Nook to the east. It is the location of the manorial Foxdenton Hall and its grounds, Foxdenton Park. There were several working farms remaining in Foxdenton until the late 2010s. The commencement of the Broadway Green housing development will, however, see the area become more suburban in character. The farmhouse at Foxdenton Farm is a grade II listed building. Early 19th century gazetteers described Foxdenton as a village in the township of Chadderton.

Landmark Neighbourhood