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Suburb
Districts & Townships of Manchester
Within
the the boundaries of the City of Manchester
The City of Manchester
viewed from the south. Aerial
Photograph Image Courtesy of www.webbaviation.co.uk © 2005
The
Growth of the City of Manchester
The
present day City of Manchester comprises some 30 districts or township
suburbs, which are, alphabetically:
Manchester
Districts in 1838
In 1838 the original
City of Manchester included only the most central districts of Cheetham,
Beswick, Ardwick, Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock. Other districts were
incorporated at various dates over the following century, though not
all original district placenames were to survive annexation.
Manchester
Districts in 1938
By 1938, the following
district townships had been added :
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1885:
Bradford, Harpurhey and Rusholme.
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1890: Crumpsall, Blackley & Moston, Newton Heath, Clayton, West
Gorton, Openshaw and Kirkmanshulme.
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1903: Heaton Park.
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1904:
Moss Side, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, Burnage and Didsbury.
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1909:
Gorton and Levenshulme.
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1913:
Heaton Norris.
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1931:
Wythenshawe.
Note that Heaton
Norris was actually lost to Manchester when it was incorporated into
the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in 1973. The district of Kirkmanshulme
was subsumed into other neighbouring districts.
"Around
the M60 - Manchester's Orbital Motorway"
By Matthew Hyde,
Peter Portland & Aidan O'Rourke
ISBN 18977 62305, over 100 Illustrations, Two new Maps of Manchester
and the M60.
AMCD has just launched a new guide to the M60 Motorway by Photographer
Aidan O'Rourke (Eyewitness in Manchester) Matthew Hyde (Architectural
Historian at the Manchester Museum) and Peter Portland (local historian
also at the MAnchester Museum with the Alderley Edge website project
). .
In bookshops at £24.95, or on the AMCD website at the special
price of £18.95 (incl P&P) at: http://www.amcd.co.uk/publications.shtml.
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also:
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