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Chorlton-on-Medlock is an inner city area of Manchester, in North West England. Historically a part of Lancashire, the northern border of Chorlton-on-Medlock (a former township) is the River Medlock which runs immediately south of Manchester city centre. Its other borders roughly correspond to Stockport Road, Hathersage Road, Moss Lane East and Boundary Lane. Neighbouring districts are Hulme to the west, Ardwick to the east and Victoria Park, Rusholme and Moss Side to the south. A large portion of the district along Oxford Road is occupied by the campuses of the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Royal Northern College of Music. To the south of the university's Oxford Road campus a considerable area is occupied by a group of contiguous hospitals which includes Manchester Royal Infirmary to the west of which is Whitworth Park.
[edit] HistoryFurther information: History of Manchester From Medieval times the district was known as Chorlton Row and was a township of the ancient parish of Manchester in the Salford Hundred of Lancashire. Towards the end of the 18th century it was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester and in the extreme north of the township a number of cotton mills were established: in 1820 the parish church of All Saints was built. Development began in 1793-94: most of the important streets were given impressive names, Oxford Street, Cambridge Street and Grosvenor Street being three of these. Over the next thirty years residential development spread southwards as far as Tuer Street: and by the mid-1840s to High Street. Very few dwellings of that period remain today: they include Waterloo Place, 323, 325, 327 & 333 Oxford Road, and Grove House (316-324).[1] In 1830 the town hall on Cavendish Street was built to the designs of Richard Lane (see below). On the creation of the municipal borough of Manchester in 1838 the township was absorbed into the borough. At this time the southern area was still partly rural with some larger dwellings of wealthy people (e.g. John Owens in Nelson Street). After the Poor Law Reform of 1834 the district became part of the Chorlton Poor Law Union and the offices of the Board of Guardians were built in Cavendish Street (these are now the Ormond Building of the Metropolitan University). The arrival of Owens College in 1873 was the beginning of a different kind of development leading to the academic campus of today. Though most of the township was originally middle class in character by the early 20th century it was very much a working class district. The housing conditions were described in 1931 by the Manchester and District Social Survey Society.[2] [edit] Geography  The historic boundaries are as described in the introductory text: however those who think more about postal areas and university campuses often include the area east of Boundary Lane and west of the Dental Hospital in Hulme because it has M15 postcodes and think of Greenheys as an area of Moss Side rather than Chorlton on Medlock. Much of the area can also be included in a districts referred to as "Central Manchester" in modern directories and publicity. Once the River Medlock is crossed that is Manchester City Centre which includes the Sackville Street campus of the University (or confusingly "North Campus" rather than "South Campus"). A large area of Chorlton on Medlock south-west of this is occupied by the Manchester Metropolitan University. The M13 postcode district comprehends Ardwick and Chorlton on Medlock (roughly speaking). Brunswick is an area located around Brunswick Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock. It is the area south of Manchester Piccadilly railway station and north of the Manchester Royal Infirmary: its western edge is dominated by campus buildings of Manchester University east of Oxford Road. These have all been built in the period since 1957 and several large new buildings have appeared since the inauguration of the present University in 2004, such as University Place on the site of the former Mathematics Building.
Chorlton on Medlock is crossed by the Mancunian Way, running west to east through its northern part. The main routes through the suburb to south Manchester are (west to east) Cambridge Street (leading to Upper Lloyd Street), Oxford Road (the busiest route, both for private and public transport), and Upper Brook Street (dual carriageway). [edit] Landmarks The front of the former Chorlton-upon-Medlock Town Hall can be seen at its original location on Cavendish Street at All Saints. The building, with its Doric portico, dates from 1830 and was designed by Richard Lane.[3] The original interior was removed and a new structure added to the rear in 1970. A red plaque on the building commemorates the Fifth Pan-African Congress, which was held there from 15–21 October, 1945. Decisions taken at that conference led to independence for a number of African and Caribbean countries. In Nelson Street the former home of the Pankhurst family is now the Pankhurst Centre. The Ormond Building of the Manchester Metropolitan University was originally the home of the Chorlton Union Board of Guardians (under the 1834 Poor Law). Next to the town hall building is the original building of the Manchester College of Art (1880-81: architect George T Redmayne) in a Gothic revival style. Further down Oxford Road are the University of Manchester, the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and the Whitworth Art Gallery. [edit] Religion The parish church of All Saints (1820) and the earlier Church of St Luke (before 1804) (to the east) have been demolished as have several other Anglican churches in this area. Christ Church, Lloyd Street North was the work of W. Cecil Hardisty, 1899-1904. The oldest Roman Catholic church in Chorlton-on-Medlock was the Church of the Holy Name on Oxford Road (built between 1869 and 1871), a fine example of the work of the architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom. St Augustine's, Granby Row (demolished to allow expansion at the Municipal College of Technology) was replaced by a second St Augustine's in York Street, Chorlton on Medlock (ruined in World War II): its successor is at Lower Ormond Street on the Manchester Metropolitan University campus in a building which serves also as a chaplaincy to the University. There were also many Nonconformist chapels (most of them now demolished) such as the Congregational Chapel, Cavendish Street (architect Edward Walters, 1847), the Union Chapel, Oxford Road and a Presbyterian chapel at All Saints. The Chapel in Cavendish Street was a particularly fine neo-Gothic building but was demolished in the early 1970s to allow expansion by Manchester Polytechnic. It has replaced an earlier chapel in Mosley Street. The Welsh Baptist Chapel, on Upper Brook Street, was designed in the early 19th century by Sir Charles Barry, who designed the Palace of Westminster shortly afterwards. In Greenheys there was formerly an Anglican church of St Clement on Denmark Road and a German Protestant Church in Wright Street (ca. 1871). [edit] Notable residentsSee also List of people from Manchester  Nineteenth century
Twentieth century
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