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| Name: | Oldham Edge |
| Hill number: | 16698 |
| Height: | 249m / 817ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2810 Black Hill |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Oldham |
| Catchment: | Mersey |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SD 92915 05901 |
| Summit feature: | grass mound |
| Drop: | 61m |
| Col: | 188m SD933062  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 109 (1:25k) 277 |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 54 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked top of Henshaw St, 4 mins to summit, well trodden path heading up the mound as you pass the mast on the left. Explored the immediate surroundings to show willing. Would be a nice escape for the residents of Oldham if humans could learn to endure the hardship of taking litter home with them. On to Mossley. | Alfa1M | 15/12/2023 |
| Parked parked on Higginshaw Road close to junction with Yewbarrow Road - Through kissing gate, up steps to playing field & then immediate right along ridge path to summit. | gerrybowes | 25/10/2023 |
| From road to east, up FP to playing field, then north along ridge to HP before beacon and mast. | PeterD | 10/10/2021 |
| Oldham Edge from GR: SD 92951 06029. Easy bag. | ronaldo333 | 27/09/2021 |
| From the W, over park/playing field to the nice little wooded ridge with fire beacon and moorland views to E, pity about the litter. (I bet Compton Street is is a challenge in snow and ice.) | RichardM | 11/04/2021 |
| 16:00, 10 degrees, sunny, with Miranda. Surprising oasis with enchanted wood on north top. | Wycombe Wanderer | 13/05/2020 |
| 6 of 8 on 21 mile grueller bike ride. Nicest one of the day. Probably because mostky downhill to get to it | The-Z-Man | 15/07/2019 |
| With Catman. | oscarrosie | 11/05/2019 |
| From Higginshaw Road.Top becoming overgrown.With Oscar. | catman | 11/05/2019 |
| Aim for Higginshaw Road, Oldham. There is easy roadside parking close to a bes stop at a point where a barrier and some steps lead up to the col. Turn left at the top and head just beyond the mast. 750m, 10 minutes return. | moorsman | 07/03/2019 |
| From Higginshaw Lane. Up obvious fp and along to mast and beyond beacon. Much fly tipping. | Campbell Singer | 11/11/2018 |
| Parked in bay at SD9296406014 then followed footpath to the top of Oldham Edge past the phone mast and beacon. Pleasant little stroll. | John Eley | 21/10/2018 |
| As for Dugswell2 | arranc | 12/08/2018 |
| summit on a path that runs to the mast near he summit | my-list | 01/07/2018 |
| As Dugswell2. | David Evans | 04/03/2018 |
| Roadside parking to S. Small ridge with big views. Fire basket beacon 60m N. With Carole Engel on a Christmas day round of 13 hills and a pile of pillars. | jonglew | 25/12/2017 |
| Up from Higginshaw Road. Icy in places. | Bramley | 17/12/2017 |
| Darkness tramp up the path on the ridge, with head torch available but unused. | vegibagger | 29/01/2017 |
| walk around the edge with Cissy | AvidSockWearer | 08/01/2017 |
| Last hill of Four today and this completes Oldham Co. Walked from a private house in Milnrow (Airbnb) via Moss Gate, Crompton Moor and Shaw side and then took the tram to Derker. I weaved my way up through the estate to reach the Southern end of the ridge. Such a contrast here, on one side is flat as a pancake playing field and on the ridge a spur of wild nature and on the other housing galore. I explored all possible high points, they seemed to be in brambles, A pleasing traverse over the ridge and then on a different line through housing back to Derker to take the tram to Victoria and then Manchester Picadilly for train home. | Dazingdale | 04/12/2016 |
| they were setting up the fireworks and bonfire.on a four mile walk around the area with Shaw Side | joseph mitchell | 05/11/2015 |
| Derker to Newhey. | Smudge | 31/10/2015 |
| 'Climbed' from low down to the east passing rows of terrace houses with back yards, mixed with newer housing. Walk along crest to top and to mast. Oldham Council host the Big Bang firework display here each November as there are 'panoramic views across Manchester and beyond which means the fireworks display can be seen by residents from miles around'.Surely this fleeting entertainment cant survive council cut backs. | Chris Pearson | 05/08/2015 |
| Parked on Higginshaw Road near junction with Yewbarrow Road, then up obvious track to summit then down hill to mast and beacon. | Dugswell2 | 01/05/2015 |
| Done with Moy Hill, Moss Gate & Shaw Side, in a raging blizzard. | ngthack | 28/01/2015 |
| From N, steep path onto ridge then past comms mast and millennium beacon. | RHW | 02/11/2014 |
| Through metal gate as the Gradwell trio. The grass certainly was green - and wet. Summit by track and just beyond is beacon with plaque and a comms mast. | Aye Jimmy | 11/05/2014 |
| On Owdham Edge the grass is green, nicest view that e'er tha's seen. If tha stands on t' top and tha looks about, there's nowt but mills wi' a chimbley spout. Well I went up to heaven one morning in May, th' angels said where does't come from and where does't tha stay? When I towd 'em, from Owdham, how they all did stare, they said come in lad tha'rt welcome, tha'rt first 'un from there. | George Gradwell | 04/05/2014 |
| Parked on Higginshaw Rd opposite public footpath at SD 93003 05840. Through metal kissing gate and up onto Edge and turned right. Highest point is beside path on left at SD 92913 05899. | David Gradwell | 04/05/2014 |
| From Mumps tramp stop. Had a walk up Glodwick Low first then up and along the Edge. Quite pleasant as far as Oldham goes. | Jake994 | 13/03/2013 |
| Climbed from Boundary Park, just before Tranmere Rovers' 1-0 win against Oldham Athletic. | Pete R | 10/11/2012 |
| Alex C | 06/05/2023 | |
| Halfdecent | 27/04/2023 | |
| David84 | 22/05/2022 | |
| Moorponder | 04/07/2021 | |
| Denise | 11/04/2021 | |
| andy63 | 03/01/2021 | |
| Bag For Life | 13/05/2020 | |
| PM | 13/10/2019 | |
| Andy West | 07/07/2019 | |
| Adrian | 28/04/2019 | |
| GaryJones | 02/09/2018 | |
| carole engel | 25/12/2017 | |
| PeteF | 09/08/2017 | |
| andrew brown | 18/04/2016 | |
| Mark Sims | 25/02/2016 | |
| RobertP | 15/03/2015 | |
| GordonAdshead | 06/09/2014 | |
| bluewater | 16/06/2014 | |
| Alan Caine | 24/05/2014 |