Gorton North

Limehurst was, from 1894 to 1954, a rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.

The Plough is a Grade II listed public house at 927 Hyde Road, Gorton, Manchester M18 7FB.It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.It was built in the late 19th century, incorporating parts of an earlier building.

The Peacock Mausoleum is a Victorian Gothic memorial to Richard Peacock (1820–1889), engineer and Liberal MP for Manchester, and to his son, Joseph Peacock. It is situated in the cemetery of Brookfield Unitarian Church, Gorton, Manchester. The mausoleum was designed by the prolific Manchester architect Thomas Worthington. It was listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England on 3 October 1974.Nikolaus Pevsner's The Buildings of England describes the memorial as "a large three-bay shrine of white stone. Steep roof and statues at the corners – an engineer, blacksmith, draughtsman and architect, supposedly a portrayal of Worthington himself." Peacock, a partner in the locomotive engineering firm of Beyer, Peacock & Company also paid for the construction of the Brookfield Unitarian Church.

Brookfield Unitarian Church, Gorton, Manchester, England is a Victorian Gothic church. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella body for British Unitarians.

Ryder Brow railway station serves the Gorton and Ryder Brow areas of Manchester, England. The station is 2+3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) southeast of Manchester Piccadilly on the Hope Valley Line and opened in 1985 by British Rail.

Gorton and Abbey Hey is an electoral ward of Manchester, England created by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) from the previous electoral wards of Gorton North and Gorton South for the local elections 2018.It is represented in Westminster by Afzal Khan MP for Manchester Gorton.

Gorton Heritage Trail is located approximately 3 miles from the centre of Manchester, England. The trail has been designed to promote and conserve the heritage and wildlife of Gore Brook Valley. It lies mainly within the Gore Brook Conservation area. There are eight listed buildings and other places of interest along the trail. The trail runs through what is still a surprisingly rural and environmentally diverse area; it has a meadow area along Gore Brook and a Butterfly Garden which give an ecological dimension to the trail.

Abbey Hey Football Club is a football club based in the Abbey Hey area of Gorton, Manchester, England. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One South and play at the Abbey Stadium. The club are full members of the Manchester Football Association.

Hyde Road was a railway station in Gorton, Manchester, England, on the Fallowfield Loop Line. It opened in 1892 and closed in 1958 when local passenger services on the line stopped. The station was sometimes advertised as Hyde Road for Belle Vue, that is, convenient for Belle Vue Zoo, about one mile away. The track closed completely in 1988 and the track was taken up. The station has long since been demolished, and the site has now been partly redeveloped. The line of the track is used as a cycleway. It was named after Hyde Road, a road which begins at the east end of Ardwick Green South in Ardwick and runs east towards Hyde. At the boundary between Gorton and Audenshaw it continues as Manchester Road.

Gorton is an area of Manchester in North West England, southeast of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 36,055. Neighbouring areas include Levenshulme and Openshaw. A major landmark is Gorton Monastery, a 19th-century High Victorian Gothic former Franciscan friary.

Reddish Electric Depot was an Electric Traction Depot located in Reddish, Stockport, England. The depot was situated on the west side of the line between Hyde Road and Levenshulme stations. Confusingly, neither of the Reddish stations - North and South - were on this line. It was built to service the electric locomotives and local electric multiple units used on the electrified Woodhead Line between Manchester, Sheffield and Wath. To enable access to the depot, the line from Fairfield Junction on the Woodhead Line as far as the depot was electrified.Before their services stopped (in July 1981 for the Woodhead locos, and December for the class 506 EMUs, as the line was converted to 25kV, for the Hadfield/Glossop passenger service) the depot had an allocation of EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives and Class 506 EMUs.

Gorton railway station serves Gorton district of the city of Manchester, England. The station is on the Manchester-Glossop Line and is 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly. It was opened by the Great Central Railway (GCR) on 25 August 1906 and replaced an earlier station that opened on the line on 23 May 1842. From 1 January 1923, the station was operated by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The new station was on the busy Woodhead Route to Sheffield Victoria and had four platforms. The original station was situated 200 yards (180 m) west of the present station. From its opening, the new station was named Gorton and Openshaw, and it reverted to its original name by 1977. It was referred to as Openshaw in the 1964 song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann. Only two platforms now remain in use.