Crompton, including Crompton Fold and High Crompton and Clough is in the Oldham district of Shaw.
Shaw is North of Moorside, Northeast of Royton and about 3 miles North of Oldham town. St. James's Chruch at High Crompton was constructed in 1872 and consecrated in 1878. Before then families would have use nearby Royton Chapel of Ease (from 1757) or Rochdale or Oldham.