The Old Market Place
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Old Market Place by David Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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The Old Market Place
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 12 Jan 2012
The cross is a replica (erected in 1990) of the original market cross which stood here, in front of the seventeenth century Buttermarket. The "Orange Tree", behind the cross, and some of the adjacent buildings have fragments of 16th and 17th century buildings. The Orange Tree, which has been a pub only since the 1880’s, consists of two ancient timber buildings which had an alley on the left and has wattle and daub remains in a back room. For more details, see http://www.communigate.co.uk/chesh/altrincham/page2.phtml (Altrincham History Society)
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Image Location
Latitude
53.388863
Longitude
-2.350747