Mossley
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Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, south-east of Oldham and east of Manchester.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Mossley
- UK place.population_ref
- 11,557 (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Mossley
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Tameside
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- Greater Manchester
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Stalybridge and Hyde
- UK place.post_town
- ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
- UK place.postcode_district
- OL5
- UK place.postcode_area
- OL
- UK place.dial_code
- 01457
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SD9702
- UK place.static_image_name
- Mossley view.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- View of Mossley
- UK place.website
- www.mossley-council.co.uk
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Public venue
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Parliament
- Geography
- Churches
- Education
- Primary schools
- Secondary school
- Transport
- Media
- Twinning
- Sport
- Fairtrade
- Notable people
- Sport
- See also
- References
- External links
Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, south-east of Oldham and east of Manchester.
The town grew up straddling the three historic counties of Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire. It was placed entirely in Lancashire in 1889, and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. At the 2021 census, the built-up area had a population of 11,410 and the parish population was 11,557.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mossley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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