Houses on Hale Road, Hale Barns
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The photograph on this page of Houses on Hale Road, Hale Barns by Anthony O'Neil as part of the Geograph project.
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Houses on Hale Road, Hale Barns
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: Unknown
The white building is the former farmhouse of Elm Farm which was still a working farm into the 1960s, although much reduced: farmland having been consumed in the construction of adjacent Ringway Golf Course, from 1909. In fact, the club had started by renting land from another adjacent farm - Oaklands - whose farmhouse eventually became the old clubhouse (which later burned down). Elm Farm probably gave its name to nearby Elmridge Drive, developed after the War. (Ringway is the neighbouring parish to Hale Barns and was, in a sense, isolated from it by the construction of the M56 motorway. Until it became 'International', Manchester Airport was called 'Ringway'.)
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Image Location
Latitude
53.367852
Longitude
-2.310448