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Hathershaw, Oldham — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hathershaw is an urban area of Oldham in Greater Manchester, a hillside district bisected by the A627 road running on to Ashton-under-Lyne.
About Hathershaw
Where to stay in Hathershaw
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Beds gather in Oldham town centre. Hathershaw is housing on a hillside with no hotel quarter of its own, so the practical choice is a room near Gallery Oldham and the Grand Theatre, a short run north along the A627 road. Coppice sits on one border.
Fitton Hill lies on the other, and the same road carries on south to Ashton-under-Lyne for anyone whose plans run that way rather than into Oldham.
About Hathershaw
What are the main landmarks in Hathershaw?
The roll belongs to Oldham. Hathershaw lies immediately south of the town centre, where Gallery Oldham and the Grand Theatre stand, and three listed churches, the Church of St Mark with Christchurch, the Church of St Thomas and St Paul's Church, mark the streets around it. Werneth Hall shares its name with the park.
The Monument To Sarah Lees and the Werneth Park Lifelong Learning Centre round out what a district with no drawn boundary can claim as its own.
What is the history of Hathershaw?
Boundaries were never drawn. Hathershaw has no formal extent on record, so its past is read through Oldham instead, in the buildings the town keeps listed: Werneth Hall, the Monument To Sarah Lees and the Grand Theatre. Werneth Park Lifelong Learning Centre stands among them.
The A627 road, which cuts the district from north to south, carries the route on to Ashton-under-Lyne.
Where is Hathershaw?
No formal boundary marks it. Hathershaw occupies a hillside immediately south of Oldham town centre, with Coppice to the north-west and Fitton Hill to the south-east.
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Updated September 2026