Fallowfield
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Template:Infobox UK place Fallowfield is an area of the City of Manchester, England. It lies three miles south of Manchester City Centre and is bisected east/west by the Wilmslow Road and north/south by the former Fallowfield Loop railway line, now a cycle path.
The area has a very large student population due to the main accommodation centre of the University of Manchester lying right at its centre - the Fallowfield Campus, including the Owens Park complex.
Wilbraham Road is the site of the stylistically eclectic and, for its time, structurally innovative South Manchester Synagogue (1913).
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[edit] History
The early medieval linear earthwork Nico Ditch passes through Platt Fields Park in Fallowfield; it was probably used as an administrative boundary and dates from the 8th or 9th century.[1]
The 1893 FA Cup final was played at Fallowfield Stadium. The stadium also hosted the cycling events for the 1934 British Empire Games, and the Amateur Athletic Association championships in 1897 and 1907. It was demolished in 1994, and the site is now Manchester University's Richmond Park Halls of Residence.[2]
[edit] Governance
Fallowfield ward (which does not coincide with the area popularly known as Fallowfield) is represented on Manchester City Council by three Labour councillors, David Royle, Peter Morrison and Michael Lee Amesbury.[3] It is part of the Manchester Gorton Parliamentary Constituency held by Sir Gerald Kaufman. Included in the Fallowfield ward is the Platt Fields Park and the Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple in Whalley Range, as well as William Hulme High School and Whalley Range High School.
[edit] Fallowfield railway station
Fallowfield railway station was a railway station located on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield. Today what remains of the station building is used as a pub called Bar XS, with the rest of the site taken by a Sainsbury's supermarket and a block of flats.
[edit] References
- ^ Mike Nevell (1998). Lands and Lordships in Tameside. Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council with the University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, 40-41. ISBN 1-871324-18-1.
- ^ The Harris Stadium (formerly Fallowfield Stadium) (HTTP). UK Running Track Directory. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ Manchester City Council - Fallowfield ward councillors. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
