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1. Slattocks and Stakehill
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005PRIMARILY a farming district, and in Victorian times renowned for its tulip growing, the Slattocks area was given a new lease of life with the coming of the motorway.
2. Langley
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005ONE OF Europe's largest social housing estates, Langley was originally bought by Manchester Corporation to establish a reservoir. But the development of Manchester's water resources in the Lake District made it surplus to requirements and Langley was allocated for re-housing the thousands of people made homeless by the city's post-war slum clearance programme.
3. Boarshaw
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005BOARSHAW was once a wooded area - probably part of the ancient Forest of Arden - and the home of wild boar. In the 1400s Sir Ralph Assheton - the Black Knight - was riding through Boarshaw Woods when he came across Margaret Barton, the heiress of the manors of Middleton and Fryton, being attacked by a boar. He is said to have killed the boar and taken her back to Middleton Hall where they were later betrothed.
4. Bowlee and Birch
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005THE twin villages spread along Heywood Old Road are part of Middleton's 'green lung'. The Bowlee Country Park was made possible with money generated by the sale of land for the establishment of the prestigious Lancashire Health and Racquet Club. Bowlee is also the home of one of the biggest and fastest-growing Sunday flea markets in the north as well as the venue for many special events such as gymkhanas, firework displays and fairs.
5. Alkrington
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005ONCE rolling farmland, Alkrington first established itself as a prime site for residential development at the beginning of the last century. First came the establishment of the Alkrington Garden village which swiftly expanded, and became the home of some of the most desirable properties in the town.
6. Hollin
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005FORMERLY glebeland owned by the church, Hollin is now predominantly social housing.
7. Blackley
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005IN THE middle of the 17th century, Blackley - a hamlet mentioned in the Domesday Book - was a village of just 107 inhabitants … today the area is home to more than 50,000.
8. Middleton Junction and Mills Hill
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005MIDDLETON Junction evolved from the former hamlet of Jumbo, which some claim was the true birthplace of the co-operative movement.
9. Moorclose
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005HOME of Middleton Technology School, Moorclose was a council estate that rapidly expanded in the post-war years when former prisoners of war from the POW camp at Slattocks were used to help the construction of roads and the basic infrastructure of the area. Many of the town's amateur football teams have their home at the King George V playing fields.
10. Rhodes
Middleton Guardian, Monday 23 May 2005RHODES still prides itself on being a 'village', a linear district along Manchester Old Road - the former stagecoach route into Manchester.