Fallowfield

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Fallowfield

Coordinates: 53.4425° N 2.2186° W Fallowfield shown within Greater Manchester
Population	14,132 (Census 2001) ^[1]
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
Dial code	0161
Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Manchester Withington
European Parliament	North West England
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Fallowfield is an area of the City of Manchester, England. It lies two miles south of Manchester City Centre and is bisected East/West by the Wilmslow Road and North/South by the former Fallowfield Loop railway line, now a cycle path.

The area has a very large student population due to the main accommodation centre of the University of Manchester lying right at its centre - the Fallowfield Campus, including the Owens Park complex. Of course, the area has many cafes and bars and also kebab houses.

Wilbraham Road is the site of the stylistically eclectic and, for its time, structurally innovative South Manchester Synagogue (1913).

1 Fallowfield Politics
2 Fallowfield Stadium
3 Whalley Range High School
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Fallowfield Politics

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 (Mike) Amesbury (who lives in Levenshulme). 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.

Fallowfield is in the Manchester Gorton constituency.

[edit] Fallowfield Stadium

On 26 March 1893, the FA Cup final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Everton was staged at Fallowfield Stadium. This marked the first time that the initial match for the cup final had been held outside London (The Racecourse Ground, Derby held the 1886 replay). Sadly the stadium is no more, as it was demolished to make way for student housing despite widespread opposition. The Stadium also included a cycle track built in 1892 of shale (but later resurfaced with concrete), 509 yards in circumference with thirty degree bankings, used for the annual Manchester Wheelers' Club meeting on the second Saturday each July. In 1950 this was purchased by star sprint cyclist Reg Harris and renamed the Harris Stadium.

Preceded by The Oval London	FA Cup Final Venue 1893	Succeeded by Goodison Park Liverpool

[edit] Whalley Range High School

This is a girls' secondary school that is very popular with Muslim parents.^{[citation needed]}

Estelle Morris, who later became Secretary of State for Education, is a notable alumnus.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

^ http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=3&b=5941644&c=fallowfield&d=14&g=351469&i=1001x1003&m=0&enc=1&domainId=16

[edit] External links

Manchester Wheelers' Club

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