Board game cafés in Oldham

Board game cafés are the best cheap night out going. Oldham, England has 2 mapped spots right now. That's 2 spots mapped around Oldham, a mix of cafés with game libraries and shops. The café side is the social one — that's where game night lives. Ask about the games library — the size of the shelf tells you how serious the venue is.

This guide covers every board game café and shop we could verify in and around Oldham (within about 40 km). Listings come from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Penistone Tabletop Gaming and Tabletop Dominion. If a spot's missing from Oldham's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Oldham game night lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about board game cafés in Oldham

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Game cafés skew toward evenings; call ahead before a special trip.

The one mapped board game café sits on 2 Market Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Oldham game night crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Penistone Tabletop Gaming on 2 Market Street and Tabletop Dominion. That's 2 stops on the Oldham game night crawl.

Game night tips for Oldham

A few things worth knowing before you work through Oldham's board game cafés:

• Go on weeknights at Penistone Tabletop Gaming. Quieter, more table choice, and the staff have time to teach properly. Weeknights are the insider move.
• Ask about the shop section at Tabletop Dominion. Many cafés sell the games too, often with a try-first discount. Ask what's in stock.
• Bring the right group. Game night lives or dies on the people. Four engaged players beat eight distracted ones.
• Respect the components. Sleeved cards, no drinks on the table edge, pieces back in the box. Treat the library like it's yours.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Oldham — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new board game café in Oldham can take a while to appear. For board game cafés we also seed from Foursquare's venue directory, since cafés are poorly tagged on the map. The 2 above are only as current as the community map. A board game café that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list cover charges or menus — those change. What we list is the where: real venues from community mapping and Foursquare, with no favourites.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.