Geography Whalley Range, Manchester

1 geography

1.1 topography
1.2 demographics
1.3 location grid

geography
topography

whalley range characterised large detached , semi-detached victorian era houses, many of have been converted flats, intermixed late 20th century low-rise flats or blocks of flats, 20th century housing west. many of roads , avenues lined trees. district has limited shopping facilities, these felt unnecessary class of person envisaged resident: these predominantly found on withington road , on upper chorlton road.

upper chorlton road (looking northeast wood road inward bus stop)

a peculiarity of upper chorlton road along of length 2 sides of road in different metropolitan boroughs boundary in centre of road going southwards left side in city of manchester , right side in borough of trafford. street furniture different: in earlier 20th century tramway systems different manchester corporation tramways designs faced of stretford urban district. boundary anomalies along route corrected in late 1980s. upper chorlton road laid out classical doorway of williams & glyn s bank, on chorlton road in old trafford, visible along length. road had several drill halls on length. obvious red-brick castellated building @ corner of kings road (in old trafford). dated 1903 , design influenced tudor architecture. extended on considerable area rear, (now occupied m16 postal sorting office, open land , derelict buildings). housed military police unit , air training corps, in 2011 there 207 manchester field hospital there. atc has moved hough end in withington, relic of time alexandra park aerodrome. yeomanry had 2 depots on upper chorlton road; 1 housing estate, other council depot. largely redundant centre still in partial use near end of college road, formerly housed transport corps (now in weaste), , royal marines.

the area had feature appears in many victorian , edwardian large-scale developments in manchester: entirely private road. can still seen off wilbraham road, , best example elsewhere in area green walk off wood road. wellington road adopted highway authority within living memory, , stretch between alness road , alexandra road still wholly owned st bede s college, bisects campus. area has no streets , these status indicator victorians. few extant highways renamed road lane , indicated status. appears merely fashion, however, later victorians appeared favour bucolic part of rus in urbes equation. bucolic, however, wasn t popular either: doghouse lane became kingsbrook road , dark lane became clarendon road.

whalley hotel, brooks s bar


demographics

according 2001 census

white british – 48.86%
white other – 4.43%
white irish – 3.39%
mixed race – 4.23%
british asian – 28.48%
black british – 8.24%
chinese or other – 2.37%

location grid