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Moss-Side

MOSS-SIDE, a township, in the parish of Manchester, union of Chorlton, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 2 miles (S.) from Manchester; containing 436 inhabitants. Victoria Park, of which part is in this township, and other portions in the townships of Rushulme and Chorlton, is likely to become at no distant time one of the most interesting places in the vicinity of Manchester. It is comprised in a ring fence, extending from the London road, on the north, to the Oxford or Rushulme road, on the south, and contains 140 acres of land. Several villas have been erected in its neighbourhood.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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