Parrs Wood
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Parrs Wood is an area in South Manchester, South East of Didsbury, at one end of Wilmslow Road.
[edit] History
Historically, the land that comprises Parrs Wood was the estate of the Parrs family. The family home - Parrs Wood House - survives as a Grade I listed building, and lies within the grounds of the modern Parrs Wood Technology and Performing Arts College.
[edit] Present day
Parrs Wood is home to Parrs Wood Technology College and Sixth Form Centre, a Tesco supermarket, and Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre.
Parrs Wood used to be home to the Parrs Wood Rural Studies Centre, but the land which this stood on was traded to the company who built the Entertainment Centre, in exchange for them building new premises for the High School. Attractions and businesses in the Entertainment Centre include a Tenpin Bowling, Cineworld Cinema, Burger King, Buckingham Bingo, Virgin Active Health club, Nando's, Chiquito, Pizza Hut and American Pool and Arcade.
Parrs Wood Celtic FC also offer amateur Saturday afternoon football. Members of the Lancashire and Cheshire Amateur Football League they play their home games on Parrs Wood High Schools own football pitches.
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