Glodwick
Glodwick is a district in the town of
Oldham in
Greater Manchester,
England.
Glodwick is an ethnic district in the south of the town of Oldham, but is home particularly to a large community of people of
Pakistani heritage. There is also a considerable but much smaller community of people of
Bangladeshi heritage.
In May 2001, Glodwick was the centre of controversy as it was at the heart of the
Oldham Riots - large scale rioting said to be fuelled by long-term under-lying racial-tensions in
Oldham. The rioting gained international media coverage, and was said to be the "worst rioting ever seen in the
United Kingdom".
Glodwick is marked architecturally by Oldham's history with the Industrial revolution, particularly cotton spinning. Much of Glodwick's housing remain as red-brick terraced type housing built originally as dwellings for Oldham's many cotton mill workers.
One of Glodwick's best known and well used buildings is Glodwick Pool (formally Glodwick Baths). It is a purpose built structure administered by Oldham Community Leisure.
