The
Suburb Districts & Townships of Manchester
Within the the boundaries of the City of Manchester
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The City of Manchester
viewed from the south
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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.
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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.
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