page_title: Shaw and Crompton
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Shaw and Crompton / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the 'Big Lamp', a landmark of en:Shaw and Crompton. Taken July 2, 2006 from the South West corner of the round about it is situated in.
context_page_description: Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, 2.3 miles north of Oldham, 3.6 miles southeast of Rochdale, and 8.7 miles to the northeast of the city of Manchester. It is regularly referred to as Shaw.
  Historically in Lancashire, Crompton and its surroundings have provided evidence of ancient British and Anglian activity in the area. During the Middle Ages, Crompton formed a small township of scattered woods, farmsteads, moorland and swamp with a small and close community of families. The local lordship was weak or absent, and so Crompton failed to emerge as a manor with its own lord and court. Farming was the main industry of this broadly independent and self-supporting rural area, with locals supplementing their incomes by hand-loom woollen weaving in the domestic system.
  The introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution initiated a process of rapid and unplanned urbanisation. A building boom began in Crompton during the mid-19th century, when suitable land for factories in Oldham was becoming scarce.
caption: The current Big Lamp. Crompton Moor can be seen in the background
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