Fallowfield
Fallowfield shown within Greater Manchester
Population	14,132 (2001 census)
Metropolitan borough	City of Manchester
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MANCHESTER
Postcode district	M14
Dialling code	0161
Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North West
European Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Manchester Gorton
List of places: UK • England • Greater Manchester

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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. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... City of Manchester. ... Wilmslow Road is a major thoroughfare in South Manchester running from Parrs Wood to Manchester City Centre. ... The Fallowfield Loop railway line was a local railway route in Greater Manchester, England. ...

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. Studentification is a neologism, coined to describe the effects that a large student population can have on an area. ... Affiliations: Russell Group, EUA, N8 Group, NWUA, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), Association of Commonwealth Universities Website: http://www. ... The Fallowfield Campus is the main residential campus of the University of Manchester, located 2 miles south of the university in Fallowfield, Manchester. ... Owens park in 1975, approximately ten years old Owens Park is a large hall of residence located in the Fallowfield district of the city of Manchester, England. ...

Wilbraham Road is the site of the stylistically eclectic and, for its time, structurally innovative South Manchester Synagogue (1913). The South Manchester Synagogue is a former synagogue in Manchester, England, of diverse stylistic influences and innovative technical construction. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

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.^[1] Nico Ditch (or occasionally Mickle Ditch) was an earth fortification than ran between Ashton under Lyne and Stretford in Greater Manchester. ...

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.^[2] For information on FA Cup Final Referees, see FA Cup Final Referees. ... Fallowfield Stadium, Fallowfield, Manchester was an Athletics stadium and velodrome. ... Countries which participated The 1934 British Empire Games was the second of what are now called the Commonwealth Games. ... The Amateur Athletic Association of England (formerly simply the Amateur Athletic Association) or AAA (pronounced three As) is the oldest athletics organization in the UK, having been established in 1880. ...

Fallowfield was the subject of the penultimate track on Manchester band The Courteeners debut album, St Jude, enititled "Fallowfield Hillbilly".

Governance

Fallowfield ward (which does not 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.^[3] 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. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the U.K. and its former colonies. ... David Royle is a Labour politician in the City of Manchester. ... Manchester Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Gerald Kaufman is passionate about Palestine The Right Honourable Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born June 21, 1930) is a British Labour Member of Parliament who was a government minister during the 1970s. ... This article discusses the adherents of Hinduism. ... Temple of Hephaestus, an Doric Greek temple in Athens with the original entrance facing east, 449 BC (western face depicted) For other uses, see Temple (disambiguation). ... , Whalley Range is a locality within the City of Manchester, in North West England. ... It has been suggested that Michael Lee Amesbury be merged into this article or section. ...

Transport

Main article: Fallowfield railway station

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. Fallowfield Station Fallowfield is a bus station on Ottawas Transitway system. ... Pub redirects here. ...

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