The Suburb Districts & Townships of Manchester
Within the the boundaries of the City of Manchester

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 :

• 1885: Bradford, Harpurhey and Rusholme.
• 1890: Crumpsall, Blackley & Moston, Newton Heath, Clayton, West Gorton, Openshaw and Kirkmanshulme.
• 1903: Heaton Park.
• 1904: Moss Side, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, Burnage and Didsbury.
• 1909: Gorton and Levenshulme.
• 1913: Heaton Norris.
• 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
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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 ). .

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• Map of City Boundaries in 1838
• Map of City Boundaries in 1938
• Map of City Boundaries in 2002
• Gazetteer of Greater Manchester

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