Northern Moor

Northern Moor is an area of Manchester, England, west of Northenden and east of Sale, 5 miles south of Manchester city centre. The Tatton family lived at from 1540 to 1926 Wythenshawe Hall, which is in Northern Moor; land around it is now Wythenshawe Park, which was a deer park from 1200–1540. In former centuries its name was spelled "Northen Moor" and meant "the moor area belonging to Northenden". Until the early 1900s Northern Moor was part of Cheshire, before Manchester expanded south of the River Mersey and the borders of Cheshire changed. Northern Moor and Northenden following the border changes has been part of Manchester instead of Cheshire. The current area called 'Northern Moor' now includes Lawton Moor, and the border of Northern Moor is now at the Sale moor border.

The area has grown since the 1930s and 1940s to cover the area of the old Tatton family estate and farms.

In 1926 Mr.Tatton (country squire at Wythenshawe Hall) sold much land in Wythenshawe, and it came into the hands of Manchester Corporation, which chose 4 farm fields in Northern Moor to be the Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome. Its runway opened in early 1929, with the old farm house used for offices. The airfield closed a few years later and moved to Eccles and became Barton Airport. The land was redeveloped with Rackhouse School opening in 1935, St. Michael's Church in 1937, St Aidan's Catholic School in 1938[1] and many houses built in the 1930s and 1940s on the land. Northern Moor has grown further since and expands to the Sale border. The area is now part of the Wythenshawe and Sale East Parliament constituency.

TV Programs

The ITV documentary series The Duchess On The Estate, filmed between February and July 2009 in Northern Moor, aired on TV on Tuesday 18 August and Tuesday 25 August 2009.

The ITV soap Coronation street filmed for a number of weeks on location in Northern Moor including the Park Pub, the Pub car park and roads in the area. This was for the story line with Callum Logan and David Platt, in the run up to the live episode in September 2015.[2]

Education

Local schools include Rack House Primary School (opened 1937 [3]), St. Aidan's Primary School (opened 1938) and Button Lane Primary School. The High School is located on the south border of the village.[4] Northern Moor is also home to the Northenden campus of Manchester College.

The Northern Moor Library has been located within the High School since 2014.

Transport

Tram: Northern Moor has two tram stops: Northern Moor Metrolink station and Wythenshawe park Metro station, both on the Manchester Airport line, services every 12 minutes to Manchester Victoria tramstop.[5] This line opened in 2015.

Bus: Northern Moor is on the 41 bus route linking Sale and Manchester. Northern Moor is also on the number 19 bus route (to Manchester Airport) and 108 (to Wythenshawe Hospital).

Roads: Northern Moor has road links with both the M60 and M56 motorways.

Manchester Airport is a 10-minute drive away.

Religion

Local churches include Lawton Moor Methodist Church, St. Michael Anglican Church, St Aidan's Catholic church and Northern Moor Community Church.[6]

St Aidan's Catholic school opened in 1938 with the church being built in 1955. St. Michael Church is a Grade 2 listed building and opened in 1937,[7] the Church building was built in a shape of a star.

Economy

Northern Moor has two main shopping areas, a restaurant and 2 pubs. One shopping area is sale circle and the 2nd is Moor Croft. Tesco opened in 2019 at the Moor Croft shopping area.

Northern Moor is mainly a residential area, with most people living there travelling to Manchester Airport, Manchester, Sale or Warrington to work.

Notable past residents

References
  1. Flanagan, Gerry. "St. Hilda & St. Aidan's Parish". wythcc.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  2. Buchanan, Sarah (2015-09-01). "Callum Logan torments the Platts in explosive trailer for Coronation Street live episode". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  3. "Rack House Primary School | Contributing to the child, the citizen, the community". rackhouseschool.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  4. "Manchester Health Academy". www.manchesterhealthacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  5. "Northern Moor tram stop". Transport for Greater Manchester. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  6. "Home page | Northern Moor Community Church". Home page | Northern Moor Community Church. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  7. "Welcome to St Michael's". The Church of England in Wythenshawe. Retrieved 2017-12-31.

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