Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament Constituency) - Boundaries

Boundaries

Oldham East and Saddleworth is the largest constituency in Greater Manchester by area, and one of three covering the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. According to the Manchester Evening News it is "a juxtaposition of downbeat urban terraces and the rolling Pennine hills", while UK Polling Report describes it as a "constituency at the eastern side of Greater Manchester, reaching from central Oldham up into the Pennines and Saddleworth Moor". Within its bounds are the eastern fringes of Oldham (such as Derker, Glodwick, Greenacres, and Sholver), Shaw and Crompton, Lees, and Saddleworth (the latter of which includes the rural villages of Denshaw, Diggle, Dobcross, Greenfield and Uppermill). Culturally, The Guardian describes the constituency as a "shotgun marriage", likened to "Coronation Street meets Last of the Summer Wine, Salford combined with Holmfirth"; East Oldham is noted as "an area of deprived terraces and racial tensions", Shaw and Crompton as a "relatively prosperous (and unusually named) town" and Saddleworth as composed of "middle-class villages and hamlets". Between 1997 and 2010, Oldham East and Saddleworth incorporated the suburban town of Milnrow in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, before boundary reforms placed it in the neighbouring Rochdale constituency.