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The opening of Bowdon railway station in 1849 provided a commuter route to the centre of Manchester, making the clean air and tranquility of the Bowdon Downs more attractive to developers. Initially, terraces and semi-detached houses were built, but by the 1860s and 1870s, the 'merchant princes' had built the large houses on Green Walk which ...
Bowdon is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It contains 33 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Watch Hill Castle (also known as Yarwood Castle, Castle Hill, and Bowdon Watch) is a medieval motte-and-bailey on the boundary of Bowdon and Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester, England. It is a scheduled monument. The castle is located north of the River Bollin and south of a deep ravine (grid reference 1]
Castles continued to be built in the area, although the last to be built in Greater Manchester were two fortified manor houses near Bury, built more for comfort than as utilitarian military structures. Bury Castle and Radcliffe Tower followed the national trend in the 13th century; they would most likely have acted as the centre of the manor ...
Greater Manchester • Manchester • Altrincham • Ashton-under-Lyne • Carrington Moss • Chadderton • Chat Moss • Cheadle Hulme • City of Manchester Stadium • Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal • Nico Ditch • North Road (Manchester) • Oldham • Old Trafford • Radcliffe • Sale • Scout Moor Wind Farm • Shaw and Crompton ...
A map of Greater Manchester, with its 14 parished areas highlighted in red. A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 14 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester, most of the county being unparished; Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Stockport are completely ...
Location of the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester within England. Date: 16 November 2010: ... Locator maps of the Ceremonial counties of England on Wikimedia ...
This is a partial list of places in Greater Manchester, in North West England. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )