Greenheys, Manchester
Coordinates: 53°27′44″N 2°14′25″W / 53.4621°N 2.2404°W
Greenheys is an inner-city area of south Manchester, England, lying between Hulme to the north and west, Chorlton-on-Medlock to the east and Moss Side to the south.
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, published in 1848, opens with a description of Greenheys, then still a rural area on the outskirts of the city.[1][2] The writer Thomas De Quincey and pioneer socialist Robert Owen both lived at Greenheys House, overlooking the now culverted Cornbrook river.[3]
is here, on Pencroft Way, Lloyd Street North.[4]
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- ^ On Topography and Hunger in Mary Barton, Victorian Review
- ^ Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester, Alan Shelston, The Gaskell Society Journal,Volume 3 (1989)
- ^ Ed Glinert, The Manchester Compendium: A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City (2009), p. 135
- ^ Manchester Science Park
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- Areas of Manchester