Ardwick is an inner-city district of Manchester, about one mile south east of the city centre. The village of Ardwick can be traced back to 1282, when it was known as Atherdwic, and the road between Manchester and Stockport runs through it. It was formerly an independent township but it became part of Manchester when the Borough of Manchester was formed in 1838. The boundary between Ardwick and Manchester is the River Medlock, which hereabouts meanders between factories and houses. Manchester is a city in the North West of England, UK. The city is named from the old Roman name Mamucium plus ceaster, derived from the old Latin Castra. Manchester is a metropolitan borough with city status. ... Stockports Town Hall Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, in North West England. ... The River Medlock is a river of Greater Manchester in north west England that flows for 10 miles before joining the River Irwell in central Manchester. ...

Prior to the industrial revolution, it was a small village situated just outside Manchester in open countryside. A small chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Thomas was consecrated in 1741. this soon expanded into a rather fine georgian church, to which a fine brick campanile tower was added in the 1830s. The church is now used as offices fror voluntary organisations. The Industrial Revolution was one of the major technological, socioeconomic and cultural changes in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. ... A chapel of ease is a church building other than the main church of a parish which is more accessible to some parishoners than the main church. ... St. ...

Ardwick is credited as being one of the first examples of a middle class suburb. Grand terraces of regency houses (some of which still survive) were built either side of the church, and these were fronted by Ardwick Green, a private park for the residents, containing a pond. early inhabitants included members the family of Sir Robert Peel. Similar housing developments took place along Higher Ardwick and the Polygon. This is about the British Prime Minister. ...

Ardwick Cemetery was established in the 1830s as a prestigious place for fashionable burials, including that of John Dalton. it is now converted into a school playing field. John Dalton John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was a British chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ...

During the 19th century, Ardwick became heavily industrialised and it was characterised by factories, railways and rows of back-to-back terraced houses being juxtaposed. Ardwick Station is situated at a junction where the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, later the the London and North Western Railway diverged from the line to Sheffield that became the Great Central Railway. Nichols Hospital, a fine neo-gothic bulding that is now a school, was constructed on Hyde Road in the last quarter of the nineteeth century. The Manchester and Birmingham Railway was built between Manchester and Crewe. ... The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ... The Great Central Railway (GCR) was the latter day name of a railway company of the United Kingdom which earlier was known as the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR). ...

The railway bridge across Hyde Road was known by older residents as the 'Fenian Arch' as it was the scene of an attack upon a prison van carrying suspected fenian prisoners to the former Belle Vue Prison. The perpetrators were hanged, the so-called Manchester Martyrs. But one must not forget the murdered Sergeant Brett, for he was only doing his duty. Fenian is a term used since the 1860s for an Irish nationalist who espouses or is perceived to espouse violence against British rule, usually by people opposed to their aims. ... Sketch of the Hanging The Manchester Martyrs, William OMera Allen, Michael Larking, and William Goold (aka OBrien) were hanged in Manchester, England November 23rd, 1867. ...

Ardwick green contains a cenotaph commemorating the Eighth (Ardwick) Btn. of the Manchester Regiment, whose drill hall is still nearby. The Cenotaph, London A ceremony at the Cenotaph, London, on Sunday 12th June 2005, remembering Irish war dead Memorial Cenotaph, Hiroshima, Japan A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. ... In 1881 The Manchester Regiment was formed with the amalgamation of the 63rd Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot. ...

The Manchester Apollo is one of Ardwick's most famous landmarks, playing host to high quality national and international performing artists. The Carling Apollo Manchester is a concert venue in Manchester. ...

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