a village of England, Lancashire, in a deep valley, 2 miles N. of Oldham. The streets are regular and the houses well built, so as to have given the place of late years much of the aspect of a town. It has a chapel belonging to the Established Church, places of worship for Independents, Methodists, and Quakers; as well as a national school. Cotton and flannel are made here; and the coal-pits and quarries in the vicinity employ many of the inhabitants. Pop. 6974.