Everything about Fallowfield totally explained
Fallowfield is an area of the City of
Manchester,
England. It lies three miles south of
Manchester City Centre and is bisected north–south by
Wilmslow Road and east–west by the former
Fallowfield Loop railway line, now a cycle path.
The area has a
very large student population. The
University of Manchester's main accommodation complex – the
Fallowfield Campus – lies in its centre, and it also includes the university's
Owens Park hall of residence.
Wilbraham Road is the site of the stylistically eclectic and, for its time, structurally innovative
South Manchester Synagogue (
1913).
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.
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.
Fallowfield was the subject of the penultimate track on Manchester band The Courteeners debut album,
St Jude, enititled "Fallowfield Hillbilly".
Governance
Fallowfield ward (which doesn't 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. 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.
Transport
Fallowfield railway station was located on Wilmslow Road. What remains of the station building has been converted into a
public house; the rest of the site is occupied by a Sainsbury's supermarket and a block of flats.
1986: The UK’s first drive-through McDonald’s opens in Fallowfield, Manchester.
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