Failsworth is a town in the

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, England, north-east of

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and south-west of

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. The M60 ring-road motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was 20,680. Historically in

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, Failsworth until the 19th century was a farming

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linked ecclesiastically with Manchester. Inhabitants supplemented their farming income with domestic

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weaving. The humid climate and abundant labour and coal led to weaving of textiles as a Lancashire Mill Town with redbrick

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s. A current landmark is the Failsworth Pole. Daisy Nook is a

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on the southern edge.

Etymology

Failsworth derives from the

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and ''worth'', probably meaning an "enclosure with a special kind of fence".

History

Early settlement rested on a road that runs today between Manchester and Yorkshire. This Roman secondary road formed part of a network from Manchester up north, probably to

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near

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. The section that ran through Failsworth is still known as Roman Road. It was built above marshland and laid on brushwood with a hard surface. Roman Road has also been known as "Street", a Saxon term meaning "metalled road", indicating that it was also used that later period. Early sources suggest the area was occupied in Saxon times. The small hamlet of scattered dwellings made of rough local stone, mud and clay with thatched roofs, may have been stood on ground higher than the surrounding marshland. Daily life would have centred on animal husbandry and agriculture. Unmentioned in the ''

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'' of 1086, Failsworth appears in a record of 1212 as ''Fayleswrthe'', a settlement was documented as a estate or manor comprising four

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s of land. Two oxgangs at an annual rate of 4

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s were payable by the tenant, Gilbert de Notton, to Adam de Prestwich, who in turn paid tax to King John. The other two oxgangs were held by the Lord of Manchester as part of his

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. The Byron family came to acquire the whole township in the mid-13th century. Apart from a small estate held by Cockersand Abbey, Failsworth passed to the Chetham family and was then sold on to smaller holders.. By 1663, 50 households were registered. Life centred on natural resources, agriculture and stock farming, with many were employed as labourers to work the land, though tradesmen such as a tailor, a felt maker, a shoemaker, a joiner and a weaver supported them. The earliest record of a place of worship is Dob Lane Chapel, dating from 1698. Sunrise over Failsworth

In 1774, the 242 Failsworth households contained some 1.400 inhabitants, of whom a high proportion were involved in cloth manufacture. Development of the English textile trade was backed by important legislation between 1500 and 1760: a number of acts were passed to encourage it by the compulsory growing of flax. Grants were made to flax growers and duties levied on foreign imports, though Manchester's extensive linen trade used yarn imported from Holland and Ireland. In 1914 the regular Daisy Nook Easter Fair ceased with the outbreak of the

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, but resumed in 1920. On 8 June 2007, a 1946 work by L. S. Lowry entitled "Good Friday, Daisy Nook" sold for £3,772,000, then the highest bid ever paid for one of his paintings. Another painting by Lowry from 1953, "Fun Fair at Daisy Nook", sold for £3.4 million in 2011.

Timeline

*1212 – First official record of Failsworth in King John's Great Inquest of Service *1212 – North-western portion of land held by the Lord of the Manor of Prestwick *1212 – South-eastern portion of land held by the Lords of the Manor of Manchester *Mid-13th century – Richard and Robert de Byron acquired both portions of land *1320 – First record of a named place in Failsworth: Wrigley Head named in the Survey of the Manor of Manchester *1600–1699 – Population mostly working the land and supported by production of cloth *1660 – 43 names registered in the town *1663 – 50 recorded families *1673 – Earliest record of a place of worship: Dob Lane Chapel *1700–1799 – Most inhabitants involved in producing linen cloth, others farming *1735 – Manchester, Oldham and Austerlands Turnpike Trust improves the road between them. *1774 – 242 families recorded, with a population 1,400 *1793 – The first Failsworth Pole erected *1796 – The earliest day school recorded is Pole Lane School. *1801 – Population 2,622 *1803 – The main Turnpike Road is widened to 60 feet from Manchester to Dob Lane End. *1804 – Rochdale Canal opens on 21 December. *1825 – The first cotton mill built *1839 – The first mill built by Henry Walmsley *1844 – Failsworth constitutes a new parish: St John's. *1850 – A second Failsworth Pole erected *1851 – Population is 4,433 *1859 – Failsworth Industrial Society is officially registered on 22 July. *1863 – The first Local Government Board is founded with nine members. *1878 – Horse-drawn trams are introduced between Manchester and Hollinwood. *1880 – A railway opens between Oldham and Manchester. *1881 – Failsworth acquires its first railway station in April. *1889 – A third Failsworth Pole erected *1894 – The Local Board is superseded by Failsworth Urban District Council. *1901 – Population 14,152 *1901 – Electric trams replace the horse-drawn ones. *1903 – Merger with Manchester proposed *1904 – Merger with Manchester deferred *1924 – A fourth Failsworth Pole erected *1937 – The Roxy cinema presents its first feature on 20 December. *1946 – Failsworth Urban District Council proceeds with a housing clearance programme. *1946 – The last tram runs in Oldham. *1958 – The fifth and present Failsworth Pole erected *1973 – Failsworth is officially twinned with

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in Germany. *1974 – Failsworth becomes part of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. *1991 – Population 20,999 *1993 – The bicentenary of the first Failsworth Pole is marked. *2000 – The M60 motorway link opens.

Governance

Lying within the historic county boundaries of

since the early 12th century, medieval Failsworth formed a

in the parish of Manchester and

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. After the

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, Failsworth joined the Manchester

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, a

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unit. Its first local authority was a

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set up in 1863 and responsible for standards of hygiene and sanitation. The board constructed Failsworth Town Hall in 1880. After the

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, the area became Failsworth Urban District within the

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of Lancashire. In 1933 came a small exchange of land with neighbouring Manchester; in 1954, parts of Limehurst Rural District were added to Failsworth Urban District. Under the

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, Failsworth Urban District was abolished. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed an

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of the

, a local government district within the

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. Failsworth contains two of the twenty wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham; Failsworth East and Failsworth West. Failsworth lies in

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, represented in the

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MP of the Labour Party.

Geography

At (53.5102°, −2.1575°) Failsworth lies north-north-west of London, as the southern tip of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, sharing borders with

(north to south-west) and

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(south to east). It is traversed by the

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between Manchester and Oldham, by the former rail line of the Oldham Loop and by the

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, across its north-west corner. The

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passes through. For the

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, Failsworth counts as part of the Greater Manchester Urban Area. The land in Failsworth slopes gently from east to west away from the

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and from brooks that bound it on the north-west ( Moston Brook) and south-east (Lord's Brook). Failsworth has a

, Daisy Nook, on undulating wooded land on its eastern border largely belonging to the

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. It is suited to walking, horse riding, fishing and other pursuits.

Demography

Population change

Economy

Failsworth grew as a mill town around the hat-making industry, which continues in the town. This began as a

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before the firm of Failsworth Hats was set up in 1903 to manufacture silk hats. For a time the company had a factory near the former Failsworth Council offices and it remains in the area to this day. Other activities include electrical goods manufacture (such as

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) by

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, formerly

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Ltd), and plastic production and distribution by Hubron Ltd. In July 2007, the

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supermarket chain opened a 24-hour Extra branch superstore on the banks of the wharf. The move was opposed by shop-owners, who claimed they would have lost customers and may have been forced to close. Tesco's arrival had been expected to be a catalyst bringing other stores, bars and restaurants to Failsworth. The only other large store is a branch of

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housed in a building constructed on the demolished site of Marlborough No. 2 Mill.

Landmarks

A Failsworth Pole in Oldham Road was first raised in 1793 as a "political pole", although a local historian suggests there were others before and that

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s probably stood there for centuries. It now stands on a site from which an earlier one blew down in 1950. After a major restoration of the Pole, clock tower and gardens in 2006, a bronze statue of Benjamin Brierley was placed in the gardens. At the road junction of the A62 with Ashton Road West stands a

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built in 1923 for over 200 Failsworth men who were killed in the

. Attendances at the cenotaph on

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remain high at about 2,000. The annual parade is led by 202 Field Squadron, RE (TA), which is based in Failsworth. In June 2007 the war memorial was rededicated after a £136,000 makeover and opened by Colonel Sir John B. Timmins.

Education

The local

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is Co-op Academy Failsworth, which moved to a new building in 2008 from two buildings known as Upper School and Lower School. It caters for students aged between 11 and 16. The £28-million project brought the town's secondary schooling to come under one roof. It has specialist

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status.

Religious sites

Transport

Failsworth's main thoroughfare is Oldham Road (A62) between Manchester and Oldham. The M60 is an ring-road motorway circling Greater Manchester, with access via Junction 22. Its completion around 1995–2000 saw the installation of a graded junction and other notable changes to the A62. It led to several rows of buildings around the junction being demolished. There are frequent buses through Failsworth between

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and Oldham on

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's 83 overground service. There is also a frequent service to Manchester city centre and to

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via Oldham, with services 180 and 184. Other bus destinations from Failsworth are

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, Huddersfield,

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, Saddleworth, Shaw & Crompton and

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. Failsworth tram stop in Hardman Lane is on the Oldham & Rochdale line of the

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. At peak times, trams run every 6 minutes south towards via central Manchester and north to Shaw & Crompton or

via Oldham. At off-peak times, trams run every 12 minutes to East Didsbury and Rochdale. Previously this was an unmanned rail station on the

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serviced by

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services to

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or Rochdale via Oldham. It closed in October 2009 under Phase 3a of Metrolink extension and re-opened as a tram stop in 2012.

Twin town

Notable people

*In 1745, "

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" stayed overnight at the ''Bull's Head'' public house. *The weaver, poet, essayist and writer Benjamin Brierley was born in Failsworth and famed for his work in the

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. A statue of him was erected in 1898 in Queens Park, Manchester. There is a bronze statue of him is in the public gardens by The Pole. *In politics, Sir Elkanah Armitage was a 19th-century industrialist,

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politician and former

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.* *In present-day politics,

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MP represents the Oldham West and Royton parliamentary constituency for the Labour Party. He was formerly leader of Oldham Council *

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is a musician who formerly with the band

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during the

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period and later joined

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, which found fame with the record Set You Free. James Mudriczki, Lowell Killen, Kevin Matthews, Tony Szuminski (and former member Neil McDonald) make up the line-up for the

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band Puressence. *The Lancashire folk singer Harry Boardman was born in Failsworth. *The Broadcaster, journalist and

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Mike Atherton, was brought up in the Lord Lane area of town. The former

and

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has a road, Atherton Close, named after him, opposite the cricket club in Woodhouses where he played in his youth. *

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Anthony Farnell, is a former WBU

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champion known as the ''Woodhouse Warrior''. Retiring at 25, Farnell has since become a fight trainer and owns a gym (Arnie's Gym) in nearby

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, where he has tutored David Barnes (

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champion), Anthony Crolla (2006 ABA

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champion) and Frankie Gavin (

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gold medal winner). * Billionaire

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chemicals group, was born in Failsworth in 1952. * Katie Zelem, professional

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who plays as a

midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...

for

National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a women's professional Association football, soccer league and the highest level of the United States soccer league system#Women's leagues, United States soccer league system (alongside the USL Supe ...

club Angel City and the England women's national team *Former

Manchester United Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, Engl ...

footballer Ronnie Wallwork lived in Woodhouses. *Supermodel Agyness Deyn was brought up in the area before her family moved to

Ramsbottom Ramsbottom is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 17,872. Historically in Lancashire, it lies on the River Irwell in the West Pennine Moors, north-west of Bur ...

. *Masters Athlete Mike Coogan, lived in Failsworth, attending St Mary's RC Primary School. He was the 2019 British, European and World 200m Champion. *Actress Amy James-Kelly (''

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced ...

'', '' Three Families'') grew up in Failsworth.

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