Rising in the hills that surround Strinesdale just to the eastern side of Oldham MBC, the Medlock flows through the steep-sided wooded gorge that separates Lees from Ashton-under-Lyne and the Daisy Nook Country Park with its 19th century aqueduct carrying the disused Hollinwood Branch Canal over the shallow river.

One-quarter mile (400 metres) further on, the Medlock enters the Irwell adjacent to the bottom gate of the disused Hulme Locks.

[citation needed] In the latter part of the 18th century the river was navigable at least between the Bridgewater Canal (at Deansgate) and the site of India House (on Whitworth Street).

[6] The statue was moved from Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union,[7] and has the now-culverted flow of River Medlock between Anne Horniman Street and City Road East beneath.

Post Office Telecoms equipment of the day worked better when discrete local geographical areas, then with relatively few subscribers, had similar prefixes.