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[Preface by Martin Harper]
For a long period until 1777 the manor of Prestwich was held by the Coke (pronounced Cook) family. Thomas W Coke, afterwards the Earl Of Leicester, was Lord Of The Manor Of Prestwich. He sold all his lands in Prestwich to proceed with his agricultural experiments in Norfolk. Coke was one of the greatest improvers of agriculture and completely altered the methods used in England.
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Agecroft Bridge
Agecroft Hall :
Agecroft Power Stations :
Booklet covering Agecroft Power Stations 1924-1993
Agecroft Power Stations :
Leaflet covering Agecroft Power Stations
Leaflet about the Steam engines at Agecroft Power Station
Albion Mills, Bury New Road
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Barnfield :
Barnfield Park.
Beechcroft :
Home to Sir Edward Tootal Broadhurst
Beneath :
What Lies Beneath Prestwich
Bent Hill :
Prestwich Town Hall.
Bent House :
Brooklands :
Butt Hill :
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Charlton House:
Home to various merchants and a generous benefactor.
Clough Lane :
Article covering Clough Lane.
Prestwich Clough (House) :
Article covering Buckley Bleachworks and Prestwich Clough (House)
Prestwich Clough Heritage Trail :
Guide to the numbered posts in Prestwich Clough (with photos)
Prestwich Cloughs Walk :
Walk taking in Prestwich Clough & Mere Clough
Prestwich Clough Allotments :
Prestwich Co-op :
How a few Prestwich people changed how Prestwich developed.
Cussons/London Vale :
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Deyne Hall :
The Old Deyne Hall, residence of the Rectors.
Drinkwater :
Drinkwater Park & Irwell House
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Encliffe :
Frederick Astbury, cotton merchant, and Sir John Meir Astbury
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Gallows Hill:
Gallows hill, Heaton Park
Gardner Mount :
The history of Gardner Road and Gardner Mount
Graveyard Studios:
Used by A Certain Ratio, Joy Division and New Order plus lots more bands
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Hardman's Fold:
Heaton House:
Heaton Mill: home to the Consterdine and Bell families
Headlands : Home of the Pilkington Family
Highbank :
Hilton House :
Hilton House :
Heathlands :
Hilton Park :
Hilton Hall, The Shrubbery, Encliffe, Uplands, Thorndale, North Lea
The Holme :
Hope Road :
Hospital:
The How :
Heaton Park Military Hutments :
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Kersal Moor Riots & Races :
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Landslide "Lanny", Bury New Road:
Listed Monuments and Buildings of Prestwich :
Longfield :
London Vale Print Works :
The London Vale Print Works
Lost Buildings Pt1 (Scholes Lane/BoR):
Lost Buildings Pt2 (Polefield/BoR) :
Lost Buildings Pt3 (Drinkies/Waterdale):
Lost Buildings Pt4 (Simister) :
Lost Buildings Pt5 (Prestwich Village) :
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Myrtle Grove Dye Works,Sedgley Park :
Also home ot the Buckley family.
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North Leigh/Lea :
home of Robert G Underdown, General Manger of the MS&LR
Notable Graves of St Mary's :
Some notable burials of Prestwich Parish Church.
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The Old Engine Cottage:
The Old Engine Cottage
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Philips Park & Hall :
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Polefield :
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Policing Prestwich :
Prestwich Park :
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Sedgley Hall :
Sedgley Park (Old) Hall. Home to the Philips, Wood, and Fort families.
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The Railway comes to Prestwich :
The first trains in Prestwich
Rookwood :
Designed by and home to the Ogden Family
The Roost:
Home to the First Postmaster of Manchester
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Sedgley Hall :
Sedgley Park (Old) Hall. Home to the Philips, Wood, and Fort families.
Sedgley New Hall :
Sedgley New Hall. Home to the Lee and Barclay Families
Sedgley House :
Sedgley House. Home to the Petrocokino family.
Sedgley Mount :
Sedgley Mount. Home of the Alexandroff family.
Shrubbery :
Home to Thomas Kenyon (Chemist)
Simister, James :
Gave his name to the land and village of Simister
Spring Bank (Church Lane)
Springfield Cottage :
Home to the Clegg family
St Mary's Church :
A brief History for visitors to Prestwich Parish Church.
St Mary's Park:
St Mary's War Graves & Memorials :
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Thorndale :
Home to Theodore Drayton Grimké, founder of Greengate Dispensary
Trams (Steam) :
The first trams in Prestwich.
Tulle :
The Martyrs of Tulle in France, a town twinned with Prestwich.
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Uplands :
Home to Duncan Mathewson, J.P. and cotton merchant
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Waterdale :
Wellbank :
Whin Knowle:
Woodhill :
Woodthorpe :
Wrenwood :
Home to the Mather Family (of Mather & Platts)
WWII Sites :
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The manorial estates were divided up and purchased by the first generation of rich Manchester industrialists who created individual private estates which characterised Georgian Prestwich. Their names linger on in, amongst others, Sedgley Park, Polefield, Butt Hill, High Bank, Drinkwater Park and Heaton Park, the seat of the Earls Of Wilton, which still exists.
The next generation of rich Manchester merchants built large houses in and around the earlier estates which gave Prestwich its distinctive character in the Victorian period.
The growth of suburban Manchester came along the main roads, the tramways and railway lines. The merchants houses and estates were sold and their grounds subdivided with newer smaller houses built that now cover Prestwich.
Read a Guide to the Borough of Prestwich from the late 1950's
Steam Engines at Agecroft Power Stations :
Albion Mill :
Galcial deposits & bedrocks & tunnels
Prestwich Clough Heritage Trail
Co-operative Society
Residents of Hope Road, Prestwich
All about Prestwich Psychiatric Hospital (The 2nd Lancashire County Lunatic Assylum)
Listed Monuments and Buildings
Notable Graves of St Mary's Church
The Railway comes to Prestwich
Simister, the man and the place
St Mary's Flower Park & Playing Field
St Mary's War Graves & Memorials
Wellbank, links to Willams & Deacons Bank, the sinking of the Lusitania and a Yiddish Comedy.
Home to Fred Foy of Reliance Manufacturing.
Woodhill Home to the Scholes & Mather families
Woodthorpe home to The Rowland family of mill owners and Sir Edward Holt
