Westwood, Greater Manchester

Westwood is an urban area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

It occupies a hillside known as North Moor in the western part of Oldham, close to its boundary with Royton and Chadderton.

[1] The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham has the largest population of Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom outside of London.

Westwood features a replica of the Shaheed Minar national monument, which commemorates those killed in the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations in 1952.

[8] The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority operate a transfer loading station at Westwood Industrial Estate.