Ardwick Green
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| Ardwick Green | |
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 Ardwick Green Park | |
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| Type | Public park |
| Location | Ardwick |
| Nearest city | Manchester |
| Coordinates | 53°28′17″N 2°13′27″W / 53.4714°N 2.2243°W |
| Created | 1867 |
| Operated by | Manchester City Council |
| Open | Dawn to dusk |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Railings of Ardwick Green |
| Designated | 3 October 1974 |
| Reference no. | 1207603 |
Ardwick Green is a public space in Ardwick, Manchester, England.[1] It began as a private park for the residents of houses surrounding it before Manchester acquired it in 1867 and turned it into a public park with an ornamental pond and a bandstand.[2]
It contains a cenotaph commemorating the dead of the Eighth Ardwicks, a former unit of the Territorial Army belonging to the Manchester Regiment.[1] The old drill hall at one end of the park is still used by volunteer soldiers. The other end of the park contains a large boulder, a glacial erratic.
The Church of St Thomas, on the north side of Ardwick Green, was consecrated as a chapel of ease in 1741.[citation needed] It was rebuilt and extended in the course of the late eighteenth century, and acquired a campanile tower in the 1830s. Many of the grand buildings have been demolished, including the Ardwick Empire Music Hall (later Manchester Hippodrome) at the eastern end.
The business premises of Thomas Brown, surveyor and Resident Engineer for the construction of the Peak Forest Canal, were in Manchester and by 1841 he was living in Allerton Place at 16 Ardwick Green.[citation needed] He died here on the 30 January 1850, aged 78 years. Allerton Place was demolished and by 1915 a tyre works had been built on the site.
The early 19th-century cast iron railings on the north and west sides of Ardwick Green were Grade II listed on 3 October 1974.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ardwick Green". Manchester City Council. UK. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ "Ardwick Green Park". Manchester History. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ Historic England, "Railings of Ardwick Green (1207603)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 February 2025
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