Butler Green
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| Butler Green shown within Greater Manchester | |
| OS grid reference | SD 90450 03767 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | OLDHAM |
| Postcode district | OL9 |
| Dialling code | 0161 |
| Police | Greater Manchester |
| Fire | Greater Manchester |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
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Butler Green is a locality in the town of Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. The area is also known as Washbrook.
It is located in the south east of the town, contiguous with Coalshaw Green, Whitegate, Nimble Nook, Block Lane and Hollinwood.
Hollinwood Rugby League Club are based at Butler Green on Melrose Fields, the site of the former Melrose Mill.
Formerly a hamlet consisting of a number of homesteads and other property, Butler Green lies on the network of ancient roads that linked the various hamlets and villages of Chadderton to the manor houses at Foxdenton and Chadderton Hall. The hamlet was also archaically known as Butler Fold.
Butler Green along with the neighbouring hamlet of Old Lane, became a centre of industrial activity in the late 18th century with the construction in 1792 of the Werneth Branch Canal in an area called Jig Brow. It lay at the intersection of Washbrook and Old Lane.
The two hamlets were separated by Washbrook, a short stretch of road and surrounding area which got its name because of the brooks which flowed from the higher ground of nearby Werneth.
The Canal terminated at a basin known as Hollinwood Top Wharf and was a privately built extension of the Hollinwood Branch Canal to facilitate the transportation of coal from the Werneth Collieries to Manchester and other industrial centres. The New Engine Pit at Old Lane dates to 1803. By 1875 these collieries were no longer producing coal and the canal fell into disuse.
In 1876 the northern section of the Werneth Branch Canal was destroyed with the construction of an embankment at Washbrook for the Oldham Loop Line railway which opened in 1880.
A "Primitive Methodist" Society had begun meeting in Butler Green in 1862 in a disused loom house in the wake of what was known as the "cotton famine revival." In 1869 they erected their first building at the corner of Butler Green and Coalshaw Green Road with its three clock faces looking out from its tower across the road junction.
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