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Middleton, Greater Manchester Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Middleton, Greater Manchester

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Middleton, Greater Manchester history

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In 616, Æthelfrith of Bernicia, an Anglo-Saxon King, crossed the Pennines with an army and passed through Manchester to defeat the Brythons in the Battle of Chester. A wave of Anglian colonists followed this military conquest and their settlements are identified by the “ton” Old English suffix to local place names. Royton, Crompton, Moston, Clayton, Ashton and Middleton are a number of settlements northeast of Manchester suggested to have been founded as part of this colonisation. Middleton was a centre of domestic flannel and woollen cloth production during the Middle Ages.

Middleton, Greater Manchester landmarks

Several of Middleton’s buildings were designed by Edgar Wood, a local-born influential architect of his day. Middleton has recently benefited from redevelopments which have seen the construction of a new sports, leisure and civic centre, ‘Middleton Arena’ A large new Tesco supermarket has just been opened in the town centre.

St. Leonard’s Church

The Parish Church of St Leonard was completed in 1524, incorporating two stone arches made of stonework from an earlier Norman church. A wooden Saxon church is believed to have occupied the site long before the Norman church was built, in about 1100. The church also has one of the finest collections of monumental brasses in the area.

Tonge Hall

Tonge Hall is a grade II* listed Tudor structure badly damaged by an arson attack in 2007. Rochdale Council are now (2012) in the process of buying the property from the owner for a nominal sum with a view to restoration.

Alkrington Hall

Alkrington Hall was built in 1736 and was the seat of the Lever family. Its dominant position on a wooded hillside looks out over the Irk Valley towards Middleton.

Old Boar’s Head Inn

Situated below the parish church, on Long Street, this was originally a coaching inn on the road between Chester and York. It is said to date from at least 1632 and parts of it date back to the 1500s.

Middleton, Greater Manchester geography / climate

At 53°33′17″N 2°11′19″W / 53.55472°N 2.18861°W / / 53.547; -2.5547, −2.1887) Middleton stands on undulated land immediately north of the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester; Chadderton and Royton are close to the east. The town is supposed to have derived its name, Middle-town, from its situation midway between Manchester and Rochdale. It is situated on an ancient road between those places.

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Best Middleton, Greater Manchester places to visit

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Middleton, Greater Manchester has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Middleton, Greater Manchester’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Middleton, Greater Manchester’s information audio spots:

Tonge Hall Tonge Hall is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Tonge, Middleton, Greater Manchester. It was built in the 17th century and is now in the Middleton area of Middleton.

North Manchester Rugby Club North Manchester Rugby Club (aka North Manchester RUFC) is an amateur sports club situated 5 miles north of the centre of Manchester. Established originally in 1921 in Prestwich as Prestwich Rugby Union Football Club, the club moved to Rhodes Cricket Club in 1951 and changed its name to Prestwich & Middleton Rugby Union football club in 1985. In 1991 the club merged with struggling Oldham college Rugby Union Club, maintaining the name of North Manchester.

Chadderton F.C. Chadderton Football Club is a football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One North and play at Andrew Street.

Chadderton Hall Park Chadderton Hall Park is a park in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. It contains a large field area with a small football pitch, a playground area, several flower gardens and a small café situated next to the Park’s bowling green.

Textile Mill, Chadderton Half of the building was destroyed by fire on 11 July 1950. The remaining section continued to be used for cotton waste sorting by W. H. Holt and Son until 1988.

Cowhill, Greater Manchester Cowhill (archaically Cow Hill) is a locality of Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. It is located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the town centre close to its eastern boundary with Oldham. An ancient hamlet which grew into an industrial village, Cowhill is now a residential area and includes a large housing development, Crossley Estate.

Hartford Mill Hartford Mill was a Grade II-listed building located off Block Lane, in the Freehold area of Oldham, UK. The mill was located in the Oldham area of Freehold and is Grade II listed above Block Lane.

Manor Mill, Chadderton Manor Mill, Chadderton is an early twentieth century, five storey cotton spinning mill. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. Production finished in 1990.

Municipal Borough of Middleton The Municipal Borough of Middleton was, from 1886 to 1974, coterminous with Middleton. It was a municipal borough in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.

Rhodes, Greater Manchester Rhodes is a suburb of Middleton, in the Rochdale district of Greater Manchester. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 2917.

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