The person to contact about all the public cemeteries in Oldham is:
The Registrar of Cemeteries and Crematorium
Environmental Services Department
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
P.O. Box 30
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
Lancashire OL1 1UQTelephone No: 0161 681 1312
Fax: 0161 683 5233
Email:ENV.Cemeteries@oldham.gov.uk
The records for the municipal cemeteries are held at Hollinwood Cemetery:
Hollinwood Cemetery & Crematorium
Roman Road
Hollinwood
OldhamTelephone number 0161 681 1312
The municipal cemeteries and their opening dates are as follows: Chadderton (1857), Greenacres (1857), Lees (1879), Royton (1879), Failsworth (1887), Hollinwood (1889) and Crompton (1891).
Monumental inscriptions for the following graveyards have been published by the LFH&HS.
- Bardsley Parish Church.
- Greenaces Congregational.
- Society of Friends, Heyside, Royton
- St James, Oldham.
- Methodist New Connexion.
- Regent St Congregational Oldham.
- Zion Methodist Chapel, Lees.
- St Thomas, Leesfield, Lees.
- Hope Congregational.