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Coordinates: 53°30′00″N 2°11′00″W / 53.4999°N 2.1833°W
Newton Heath 
A view over Newton Heath
Newton Heath
Newton Heath shown within Greater ManchesterOS grid reference SD878004 - London 163 mi (262 km) SSE Metropolitan borough Manchester Metropolitan county Greater Manchester Region North West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town MANCHESTER Postcode district M10/M40 Dialling code 0161 Police Greater Manchester Fire Greater Manchester Ambulance North West EU Parliament North West England UK Parliament Manchester Central List of places: UK • England • Greater Manchester Newton Heath is an urban area of the city of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. It is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) east north east of Manchester city centre and has a population of 9,883.[1]
Historically a part of Lancashire, Newton Heath was formerly a farming area, but adopted the factory system following the Industrial Revolution. The principal industry in the area was engineering, although many were employed in the mining and textiles industries in the thriving areas of Clayton Vale and Bradford.
Newton Heath takes its name from Old English and means the 'new town on the heath'. The heath in question formerly stretched from Miles Platting to Failsworth, and is bounded by brooks and rivers on all four sides — the River Medlock, Moston Brook, Newton Brook and Shooters Brook.
Manchester United F.C. has strong links with the area, having been formed from the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club.
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History
Further information: History of Manchester
All Saints Church
French Huguenots settled in the area in the 16th century to avoid continental persecution, and brought cotton and linen weaving and bleaching skills with them. The arrival of textile mills saw Newton Heath's cottage industry change forever into a fully mechanised mass production system - in 1825 Newton Silk Mill (which exists to this day) was built and the Monsall Silk Dye Works followed soon afterwards.
The Rochdale Canal made movement of raw materials and finished products a practical reality. Later came other industries, including a soap works, a match manufacturing factory and rope works as well as engineering and glass making works. Many small back-to-back low cost houses were built to house the new migrant work force. Thus was Newton changed irrevocably from a farming area into an industrial one.
The 18th century saw Oldham Road turnpiked and a toll bar installed at Lambs Lane; this road still forms the main artery through the district. With the Industrial Revolution, by the beginning of the 19th century the Rochdale Canal had been constructed and this brought industry and creeping urbanisation to the district. During the 19th century the local population increased nearly 20 fold.
From 10 February 1883 until the slum clearances of the 1970s there was a Salvation Army corps on Thorp Road.
Industrial history
Newton Heath was a major engineering supplier and the home of many companies such as Mather & Platt, Avro (who manufactured the World War II bomber, the Avro Lancaster) and Heenan & Froude (who manufactured the Blackpool Tower)
Wilson's and Co brewery was situated in Monsall Road and operated from 1834 until 1987 when production was moved to Halifax.
Manchester United
The parish was the birthplace of the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club which was established in 1878 and later became the world famous Manchester United. It began life as a football team formed by Frederick Attock a Liverpudlian, who was a superintendent engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). The team played on a pitch at North Road, and were initially outfitted in green and gold jerseys. By 1892, they had been admitted to the Football League. The club remained in the area until 1893, when it moved to new premises at Bank Street in nearby Clayton. The name was changed to Manchester United Football Club in 1902.
Newton Heath FC's biggest successes were its election to the First Division on its expansion in 1892 and winning the Lancashire Cup in 1898.
In 1891, a Newton Heath player, Alfred Farman, scored the first penalty in football history during the match between Newton Heath and Blackpool in the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup.
FC United Of Manchester
Ten Acres Lane was the proposed site of a new five thousand capacity stadium for F.C. United of Manchester which the club intended to move into in time for the start of the 2012–13 season.
Manchester City Council gave planning permission for the stadium on the 25th November 2010. However, due to local government funding cuts, the project was halted at an advanced stage. Manchester City Council were forced to review their offer and the existing Ten Acres Lane site which is now to be developed for other purposes. FC United are looking into a partnership arrangement for a similar facility in nearby Moston with Moston Juniors Football Club.
Governance
An exclave known as Kirkmanshulme was part of the district. Belle Vue stands on that land, which is now only remembered in Kirkmanshulme Lane which borders it. The district was incorporated into the city of Manchester in 1890.
Newton Heath is in the parliamentary constituency of Manchester Central alongside Manchester city centre, Hulme, Beswick, Clayton, Openshaw and Moss Side. The seat is currently (2009) held by the Labour Party Member of Parliament, Tony Lloyd. The local Councillors are June Hitchen and John Flanagan, who are Labour Party members, and Damien O'Connor from the Liberal Democrats.[2]
Geography
Neighbouring towns, villages and places. 
Monsall Moston Failsworth Miles Platting 
Failsworth 
Newton Heath 
Bradford Clayton Vale Clayton Vale Newton Heath is an urban area and is surrounded by Monsall, Moston, New Moston Failsworth, Miles Platting Bradford and Ancoats. It lies along the south[clarification needed] as the A62 (Oldham Road), the main road between Oldham and Manchester city centre.
The district of Clayton also neighbours Newton Heath. The area between the two districts is called Clayton Vale; although it was a former centre of industry, the land has since become a rural wilderness.
Economy
The town has several well-known businesses, although a number of companies have since relocated to other areas or disbanded. Princes Food & Drink Group has a soft drinks factory on Grimshaw Lane. Manchester Abattoir, on Riverpark Road, was the primary source of meat produce for the city but has gradually downsized over recent years.The 50,000 sq ft (4,500 m²) central bakery of Martins Bakery is on Holyoak Street.[3]
The town's main shopping area is on Church Street, where alongside small family run stores you can find Iceland, Netto and a Lidl store. The local market is a local attraction and is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Landmarks
Two prominent landmarks are Philips Park and cemetery and Brookdale Park. Brookdale Park was formed in 1904 and spans over 44 acres (18 hectares). The park has two bowling greens, tennis courts, and a children's play centre. Philips Park was opened on 22 August 1846 at a cost of £6,200 and was the first public park opened in Manchester. The park, covering 31 acres (12 hectares), was named after Mark Philips MP who was committed to creating parks for the use of the working people of the city.
All Saints church is the oldest remaining structure in the area and can trace its history back to 1556.[4]
Culcheth Hall, which stood alongside the River Medlock in Newton, was owned by the Byron family (of which the poet Lord Byron was a member). Other great houses once lay within the district, including Clayton Hall (owned by the Greaves family), Whitworth Hall and Hulme Hall.
Transport
Railways arrived in Newton Heath during the 1840s and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) laid two main lines across the district. Steam locomotive repair sheds were opened in 1877 at the Newton Heath Motive Power Depot (now Traction Maintenance Depot), which grew to become a major local employer which, by the 1860s, had been expanded to a 40 acre (16 hectare) site with over 2000 workers.
Both Newton Heath (closed on 3 January 1966) and Park stations (closed on 27 May 1995) were deemed by British Rail to be surplus to requirements following the decline of the local engineering industry.
Today, Newton Heath was formally served by Dean Lane railway station, on the Manchester to Rochdale via Oldham line when it closed in October 2009. The station was adjacent to the Newton Heath depot, which maintains diesel unit trains for Northern Rail. The line is now under construction from conversion from heavy rail to light rail operation as part of the Metrolink expansion project. It is estimated that Metrolink trams will serve the area from 2011 or 2012 using the existing the Manchester bound platform of the previously used Dean Lane Railway Station A £35.6 million Metrolink station was built in 2005 at Central Park south of Newton Heath in anticipation of the network extension, but the project was cancelled by the Government due to funding problems until confirmation of the Metrolink conversion in 2007.[5]
Education
There are four primary schools, catering for children aged between 3 and 11. There are no secondary schools or facilities for further education in the area.
School Type/Status OfSTED Report Location Reference All Saints School Primary School 105505 53°29′58″N 2°10′38″W / 53.499476°N 2.177171°W [6] Briscoe Lane School Primary School 105398 53°29′53″N 2°11′09″W / 53.497950°N 2.185946°W [7] Christ The King RC School Primary School 105514 53°29′53″N 2°10′37″W / 53.497949°N 2.177078°W [8] St Wilfrid's CofE School Primary & Infant School 105496 53°29′50″N 2°10′21″W / 53.497121°N 2.172560°W [9] Religious sites
Church Religion/Denomination Leader Location Reference Christ the King Roman Catholic Fr. Alan Denneny, RD 53°29′41″N 2°10′32″W / 53.494726°N 2.175421°W [10][11] All Saints Church of England Reverend Kenneth Gabbadon 53°30′00″N 2°10′39″W / 53.500109°N 2.177575°W [12] Heathfield Evangelical ??? 53°30′03″N 2°10′53″W / 53.500770°N 2.181289°W [13] Culcheth Lane Evangelical ??? 53°29′57″N 2°10′37″W / 53.499063°N 2.176947°W [14] Culcheth Methodist ??? 53°29′57″N 2°10′23″W / 53.499238°N 2.173188°W [15] Ebenezer Old Baptist Union ??? 53°30′13″N 2°10′35″W / 53.503491°N 2.176451°W ??? Strongtower Redeemed Christian Church of God Senior Pastor Yomi Obadimeji 53°30′07″N 2°11′26″W / 53.501972°N 2.190660°W [16] Sport
Newton Heath Cricket club, which was established in 1859, is located on Mabel Street and affiliated with the Manchester & District and the Lancashire Cricket Associations.
Ten Acres Astro Centre is a council-run sport centre with a full-size outdoor AstroTurf pitch (marked for Football and Hockey) and an indoor sports hall (marked out for Netball, Basket Ball, Volley Ball, Five-a-side football and Badminton).[17]
A speedway training track operated in Newton Heath in the early 1950s.
Public services
Policing in Newton Heath is provided by Greater Manchester Police, with a part-time station on Silk Street under the command of North Manchester (A) Division.[18]
Newton Heath Library is on Old Church Street. It lends books and DVDs, and offers public computing facilities. The building is also used for a regular Councillors' Surgery and children's group.[19]
Waste management is co-ordinated by the local authority via the North Manchester Household Waste and Recycling Centre which is the primary refuse depot for north Manchester.[20]
Notable people
Notable people of note who were either born and raised in the town include:
Former England and Lancashire cricket captain, Michael Atherton OBE was born in the town and attended Briscoe Lane school before moving to Failsworth and going on to Manchester Grammar School.[21][22]
Television talkshow host and journalist Judy Finnigan was born in the parish and raised in the family home on Amos Avenue and also attended Briscoe Lane.
Journalist, writer and former editor of The Sunday Times, Sir Harold Matthew Evans and Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester attended the now closed Brookdale Park High School, although Morris was originally from Ancoats.
Ron Staniforth, who played in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, was born in the town and went on to play 107 games for Sheffield Wednesday.[23]
Buried in Philips Park cemetery is George Stringer VC. Stringer was a recipient a number of awards for valour including the Victoria Cross and the Serbian Milosh Obilich Gold Medal for Bravery, and was Mentioned in Despatches. The Newton Heath born soldier earned his awards at the Battle of Es Sinn during the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I.[24]
Cultural references
In 1942, L. S. Lowry painted a picture of the Mather & Platt's stainless steel foundry entitled Going to Work. The picture is now owned by the Imperial War Museum in London.[25]
See also
References
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- ^ "Your councillors (Newton Heath & Miles Platting)". Manchester Information. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/councillors_info.php?councillorID=94&viewBy=name. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Our Story". Martins Bakery. http://www.martinscakes.co.uk/aboutus.html. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "All Saints, Newton Heath - Church of England". GENUKI. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/NewtonHeath/AllSaints.shtml. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "The next tram will be the 2011". Manchester Evening News. 2009-07-08. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1124821_the_next_tram_will_be_the_2011. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ "All Saints CofE Primary School". School Finder. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/school_finder.php?school=86. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Briscoe Lane Primary School". School Finder. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/school_finder.php?school=16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Christ the King RC Primary School". School Finder. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/school_finder.php?school=94. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School". School Finder. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/school_finder.php?school=77. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ Cooke, Fr. Michael; Fr. Francis Parkinson (2008). Salford Diocesan Almanac 2009. Salford: Gemini Print (Wigan). p. 232. http://www.salforddiocese.org.uk/weblinks/index.html.
- ^ http://www.holysouls.freeserve.co.uk/frames.html
- ^ http://www.manchester.anglican.org/churches/manchester-archdeaconry/north-manchester.asp?Page=2
- ^ http://www.heathfieldchurch.co.uk
- ^ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/NewtonHeath/CulchethLaneEvangelicalChurch.shtml
- ^ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/NewtonHeath/Culcheth.shtml
- ^ http://www.strongtoweruk.com/index.html
- ^ "Ten Acres Astro Centre". Manchester City Information. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=3204. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Newton Heath Police station". Neighbourhood Communities and Police Stations. Greater Manchester Police. http://www.gmp.police.uk/neighbourhoodpolicing. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Newton Heath Library". Manchester City Information. Manchester City Council. http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=1014&documentID=818. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "North Manchester". Recycling for Manchester. GMWDA. http://www.recycleforgreatermanchester.com/your-local-authority/manchester. Retrieved 2008-11-01.[dead link]
- ^ Bull, Andrew (Sunday August 7). "Heroes and villains: Mike Atherton". The Guardian: pp. website, www.guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/aug/07/features.sport13
- ^ HTAFC Website "Ronnie Wallwork". Player Report. Huddersfield Town FC website. http://www.htafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10312~1121544,00.html HTAFC Website. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Ron Staniforth". Player Report. England Stats. http://www.englandstats.com/playerreport.php?pid=913. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Manchester Section". THE VICTORIA CROSS. http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/manchest.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ "Laurence Stephen Lowry RA (1887–1976)". Imperial War Museum, London. http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.1632. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
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