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semi detached properties,
some rows of terraced houses
and a lot of shops.
But beyond the railway
line, east as far as Withington
Road, Lord Egerton’s grand
highway continued to be
bordered by fields and the
casual traveller would have
had clear views of the
orchard beside Hobson’s Hall Hobson’s Hall Farm 1952
Farm, along with Whalley Farm, and, in the distance, the fast
growing estate of Whalley Range.
And, if he or she ventured off the road onto the fields, they
could have walked north to Longford Brook which snaked, open
to the skies, across the fields, or on a whim head south till they
were stopped by the railway tracks of the Manchester Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Railway and that of the Manchester Central
Station Line.
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