Further Expansion
Expansion of the city limits was constrained westwards (with the borough of Salford immediately to the west, having been given a charter in 1844). These areas were included in the city limits of Manchester at these dates:-
- 1885: Harpurhey, Bradford-with-Beswick, Rusholme
- 1890: Crumpsall, Blackley and Moston, Newton Heath, Clayton, Openshaw, West Gorton
- 1903: Heaton Park. So far most expansion had been northerly and easterly.
- 1904: Moss Side, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, Burnage, Didsbury, all to the south.
- 1909: Gorton, Levenshulme.
- 1931: The parishes of Northenden, Baguley, and Northen Etchells, beyond the River Mersey, previously in Bucklow Rural District in Cheshire. They later formed the Wythenshawe housing estate. This followed an unsuccessful attempt to annex the same area in 1927.
- 1974 (Local Government Act 1972): Ringway, Manchester International Airport.
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