Community Facilities
The area has a Sea Scout base on Didsbury Road, with beaver scouts, cub scouts and sea scouts currently active. It also hosts regular Harvest farmer's markets, car boot sales and family fun days. The Moorfest music festival was held at the Heaton Mersey Bowl in 2005 which included appearances from Badly Drawn Boy and Howard Marks. Local attractions include the River Mersey which the area around it has been dedicated a nature park and trail. Heaton Mersey Common with its several pubs, deli's, restaurant's and shops supply the local amenities to the area. Heaton Mersey Park has a local fishing pond and to the north of the suburb a golf course and golf driving range. Heaton Mersey is also home to the Heaton Mersey Lacrosse Team, who play in England's Northern Lacrosse division.
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