Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. The name Shaw is derived from the Old English word sceaga, meaning “wood”; the name Crompton comes from the words “bent” or “crooked” and “hamlet” It is believed that the area was inhabited by the Ancient Britons and that the Brigantes gave it its name.
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Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Crompton and its surroundings have provided evidence of ancient British and Anglian activity in the area. Crompton formed a small township of scattered woods, farmsteads, moorland and swamp with a small and close community of families in the Middle Ages. The introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution initiated a process of rapid and unplanned urbanisation. The name Shaw is derived from the Old English word sceaga, meaning “wood”; the name Crompton comes from the words “bent” or “crooked” and “hamlet” The dual name has been said to make the town “distinctive, if not unique”; preference of Shaw over Crompton has been a minor local controversy and point of confusion. Shaw was originally a hamlet and sub-district of Crompton, where it appears to have originated as the commercial and ecclesiastic centre because of a small chapel sited there dating back to the 16th century. In 1872, Shaw was noted as one of three villages in Crompton. However, due to Shaw’s urbanisation following the construction of a major road from Werneth to Littleborough, and the establishment of a post office sub- District named and situated in Shaw, it came to dominate Crompton as the largest village. The names merged to form the present day Shaw Moor, which boundary markers have used since at least the early 1950s.
It is believed that the area was inhabited by the Ancient Britons and that the Brigantes gave it its name. An ancient track, perhaps of Roman origin, leads to Castleshaw Road in neighbouring Saddleworth, leading to modern Buckstones Road. In 616 Æthelfrith, an Anglo-Saxon king of Bernicia, passed through the Pennines with an army and defeated the Britons in the Battle of Chester. A wave of colonists followed this wave of conquest, and gave the area its name, Buckstones. In the 17th century, the name Buckstones was used to refer to a Roman fort in the nearby town of Castlehaw, which is now part of the town of Saddlehaw. At its spinning zenith, as a result of an interwar economic boom associated with the textile industry, Shaw and Crompton was reported to have had more millionaires per capita than any other town in the world. The legacy of its industrial past can be seen in its six surviving cotton mills, all of which are home to large distribution companies, among them Shop Direct Group’s Shaw National Distribution Centre. The last mill closed in 1989. As of 2011, the town had a population of 21,065, with a predominantly suburban area of mixed affluence with a population of 21,000 as of 2011. The town’s dual name of both Shaw has been said to make it \”distinct and unique.
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