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3 unusual facts about Chadderton


North Chadderton School

South Chadderton County Secondary School, another secondary modern, was on Butterworth Lane.

North Chadderton School is a mixed gender comprehensive school and sixth form for 11–18 year olds, located in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

St Augustine of Canterbury RC High School

The new school is on a site in Chadderton and the buildings composing St. Augustine's have been demolished (2013).


Freehold Metrolink station

The 159 is operated by Manchester Community Transport and heads northbound to Chadderton town centre, continuing to Oldham, and runs southbound to Hollinwood, continuing to Middleton via Woodhouses, Failsworth and New Moston.

Manchester Evening News

Trinity Mirror agreed that the headquarters of MEN Media would be moved from its current location on Scott Place in the Spinningfields area of Manchester city centre to an existing Trinity Mirror site in Chadderton.

North Chadderton School

Chadderton Grammar School on Broadway, a mixed school, was officially opened in October 1930 by David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford.

Whitegate, Greater Manchester

1953 saw the opening of South Chadderton (later Broadway) Library in commemoration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II but the library closed in 2009 following an unsuccessful campaign to have the building listed.


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