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Sheepfoot Lane, MANCHESTER, M25 0BN

It's 18 June and the park is already undergoing preparations for the Stone Roses concert which isn't being held until 30th June/1st July.

The avenue between the Grand Lodge Entrance and the boating lake. Behind the trees on the right, preparations are under way for a Stone Roses concert to be held in the park in two weeks time.

This leads to the park entrance at the corner of Sheepfoot Lane and Bury Old Road. This is one of the original entrances to the Wilton estate.

The Grand Lodge gatehouse was built in 1807 together with a 4-mile long boundary wall as part of the alterations to the park that had been laid in the 1700s as a setting for Heaton Hall. Following the alterations, the gatehouse became the main formal entrance to the estate. The lodge keeper’s living quarters are on either side of the arch, joined by steps across the top.

A southern entrance for Heaton Hall on Sheepfoot Lane

This view was taken from inside the park walking towards the Grand Lodge exit. In 1807 Sir Thomas Egerton employed John Webb to make alterations to the park laid out by William Eames in the late 1700s as a setting for Heaton Hall. The alterations included building a 4 mile long boundary wall and the Grand Lodge gatehouse designed by Lewis Wyatt, which became the main formal entrance to the estate. The living quarters for the lodge keeper are on either side of the arch, joined by steps across the top. The lodge is now available for weekend breaks and holiday lettings.

One of the many entrances to Heaton Park.

The Grand Lodge gatehouse was built in 1807 together with a 4-mile long boundary wall as part of the alterations to the park that had been laid in the 1700s as a setting for Heaton Hall. Following the alterations, the gatehouse became the main formal entrance to the estate. The lodge keeper’s living quarters are on either side of the arch, joined by steps across the top.

The Grand Lodge gatehouse was built in 1807 together with a 4-mile long boundary wall as part of the alterations to the park that had been laid in the 1700s as a setting for Heaton Hall. Following the alterations, the gatehouse became the main formal entrance to the estate. The lodge keeper’s living quarters are on either side of the arch, joined by steps across the top.

The southern approach to the tunnel under Heaton Park. The Heaton Park Tunnel was constructed during the 19th century when the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway’s line between Manchester and Radcliffe was being laid. Lord Wilton, the owner of the estate at that time, was not prepared to see his estate disfigured by a railway and insisted on the trains going under his estate and not in a cutting. Although known as Heaton Park Tunnel it should, perhaps, be more correctly described as a covered way as it was not constructed by tunnelling but was dug out and then roofed over. It is possibly the shallowest railway tunnel in the UK. At one point, the top of the brick arch is less than two feet underground. The 713-yards tunnel and a railway station (now Heaton Park Metrolink station) adjacent to the park’s Whittaker Lane/Bury Old Road entrance were opened in 1879.