Oldham Below Town was, from 1851 until 1905, a statistical unit used for the gathering and organising of

civil registration Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (Birth certificate, births, Marriage certificate, marriages, and Death certificate, deaths) of its citizens and Residency (domicile), residents. The resulting repos ...

information, and output of

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information. It was a sub-district of the larger

registration district A registration district in the United Kingdom is a type of administrative region which exists for the purpose of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths and civil partnerships. It has also been used as the basis for the collation of ...

Oldham Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers River Irk, Irk and River Medlock, Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative cent ...

, in the then

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Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

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. Unlike a neighbouring subdistrict of

Oldham Above Town Oldham Above Town was, from 1851 until 1905, a statistical unit used for the gathering and organising of civil registration information, and output of census information. It was a sub-district of the larger registration district of Oldham, in the ...

, the area was broadly

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and encompassed several residential districts south and west of central Oldham including Westwood. In 1905 the Below Town and Above Town subdistricts were replaced by Oldham Central, Oldham East and Oldham South. Oldham Below Town appears on several

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census transcripts/returns as a place of birth and dwelling for many people of Oldham.

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