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New Moston
New Moston is an area of north Manchester, England, four and a half miles northeast of Manchester city centre, between Moston, Failsworth and Chadderton. According to the 2021 Census, New Moston had a population of 10,496 residents. Mid-2024 population estimates indicate the area continues to grow in line with broader demographic trends across north Manchester.
New Moston Board School was founded in 1901. New Moston Primary School was later opened in the 1930's, after which the board school became the seniors. Nuthurst Park opened in 1915, following a campaign for a public park in the area by the New Moston Improvement Association. New Moston Library and Broadway Leisure Centre (formerly the "Broadway Baths"), designed by the Manchester City Architect G. Noel Hill, opened in 1932.
The district was historically part of the Manor of Nuthurst, lying within the historic township of Moston, and was distinguished by its two manor houses, Great Nuthurst and Little Nuthurst Halls. The halls have long since been demolished but the place-name Nuthurst still survives in the area in the guise of Nuthurst Road and Nuthurst Park. The archaic district of Theale Moor, lying partly in Chadderton, was also in this area. During the Middle Ages Theale Moor was the location of a violent land dispute that was only resolved when boundary stakes were set up on the common moorland.
The name 'New Moston' originates from 1850 when 'The Manchester Bridgewater Freehold Land Society' was formed by Elijah Dixon and his colleagues, with the aim of allowing ordinary workers a chance to acquire land, for housing or allotments, away from the smoke and pollution of overcrowded industrial Manchester.
In March 1851, six holdings covering 57 acres at the “top end of Moston”, farmed by tenants of the Hilton family, of the medieval Great Nuthurst Hall, were purchased for £2,900 by the society, the aim being to divide the land into 230 plots.
A further £5,000 was invested by the society in laying out new streets to serve the plots. An access road was formed from Hale Lane in Failsworth to replace a footpath, known as Morris Lane, across the Moston Brook, which forms the boundary with Failsworth. Morris Lane ran into Moston Lane (now ‘East’). The new road, connecting with Oldham Road, gave an easier route to Manchester, Oldham, or beyond.
The brook was culverted and the hollow filled in to permit a road wide, level, and firm enough to take carts and carriages into the estate at 'New Moston'. The name chosen reflected Robert Owen's model housing schemes such as New Lanark and New Harmony.
The access road was opened in 1853 and was soon followed by the laying out of five streets: Dixon, Ricketts, Potts, Jones and Frost Streets. These were later renamed Belgrave, Parkfield, Northfield, Eastwood and – combined with the existing Scholes Lane, past Pitts Farm – Hawthorn Road(s) respectively.
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New Moston
New Moston is an area of north Manchester, England, four and a half miles northeast of Manchester city centre, between Moston, Failsworth and Chadderton. According to the 2021 Census, New Moston had a population of 10,496 residents. Mid-2024 population estimates indicate the area continues to grow in line with broader demographic trends across north Manchester.
New Moston Board School was founded in 1901. New Moston Primary School was later opened in the 1930's, after which the board school became the seniors. Nuthurst Park opened in 1915, following a campaign for a public park in the area by the New Moston Improvement Association. New Moston Library and Broadway Leisure Centre (formerly the "Broadway Baths"), designed by the Manchester City Architect G. Noel Hill, opened in 1932.
The district was historically part of the Manor of Nuthurst, lying within the historic township of Moston, and was distinguished by its two manor houses, Great Nuthurst and Little Nuthurst Halls. The halls have long since been demolished but the place-name Nuthurst still survives in the area in the guise of Nuthurst Road and Nuthurst Park. The archaic district of Theale Moor, lying partly in Chadderton, was also in this area. During the Middle Ages Theale Moor was the location of a violent land dispute that was only resolved when boundary stakes were set up on the common moorland.
The name 'New Moston' originates from 1850 when 'The Manchester Bridgewater Freehold Land Society' was formed by Elijah Dixon and his colleagues, with the aim of allowing ordinary workers a chance to acquire land, for housing or allotments, away from the smoke and pollution of overcrowded industrial Manchester.
In March 1851, six holdings covering 57 acres at the “top end of Moston”, farmed by tenants of the Hilton family, of the medieval Great Nuthurst Hall, were purchased for £2,900 by the society, the aim being to divide the land into 230 plots.
A further £5,000 was invested by the society in laying out new streets to serve the plots. An access road was formed from Hale Lane in Failsworth to replace a footpath, known as Morris Lane, across the Moston Brook, which forms the boundary with Failsworth. Morris Lane ran into Moston Lane (now ‘East’). The new road, connecting with Oldham Road, gave an easier route to Manchester, Oldham, or beyond.
The brook was culverted and the hollow filled in to permit a road wide, level, and firm enough to take carts and carriages into the estate at 'New Moston'. The name chosen reflected Robert Owen's model housing schemes such as New Lanark and New Harmony.
The access road was opened in 1853 and was soon followed by the laying out of five streets: Dixon, Ricketts, Potts, Jones and Frost Streets. These were later renamed Belgrave, Parkfield, Northfield, Eastwood and – combined with the existing Scholes Lane, past Pitts Farm – Hawthorn Road(s) respectively.