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Butler Green is a locality in the town of Chadderton in Greater Manchester. It is located in the south east of the town, contiguous with Coalshaw Green, Whitegate, Nimble Nook, Block Lane and Hollinwood. Hollinwood Rugby League Club are based at Butler Green on Melrose Fields, the site of the former Melrose Mill. ==History== Formerly a hamlet consisting of a number of homesteads and other property, Butler Green lies on the network of ancient roads that linked the various hamlets and villages of Chadderton to the manor houses at Foxdenton and Chadderton Hall.〔Chadderton Pubs And Their Licencees 1750 - 1999, Magee Rob (1986) ISBN 978 185216 134 7〕 The hamlet was also archaically know as Butler Fold.〔https://archive.org/stream/historicaldescri00butt#page/n3/mode/2up〕 Butler Green along with the neighbouring hamlet of Old Lane, became a centre of industrial activity in the late 18th century with the construction in 1792 of the Werneth Branch Canal in an area called Jig Brow. It lay at the intersection of Washbrook and Old Lane. The two hamlets were separated by Washbrook, a short stretch of road and surrounding area which got its name because of the brooks which flowed from the higher ground of nearby Werneth. The Canal terminated at a basin known as Hollinwood Top Wharf〔 and was a privately built extension of the Hollinwood Branch Canal to facilitate the transportation of coal from the Werneth Collieries to Manchester and other industrial centres. The New Engine Pit at Old Lane dates to 1803. By 1875 these collieries were no longer producing coal and the canal fell into disuse. In 1876 the northern section of the Werneth Branch Canal was destroyed with the construction of an embankment at Washbrook for the Oldham Loop Line railway which opened in 1880.〔〔http://www.pittdixon.go-plus.net/ac-hollinwood-top/ac-hollinwood-top.htm〕 A "Primitive Methodist" Society had begun meeting in Butler Green in 1862 in a disused loom house in the wake of what was known as the "cotton famine revival." In 1869 they erected their first building at the corner of Butler Green and Coalshaw Green Road. 〔pp2-11, "The Story of Primitive Methodism in Washbrook, 1862 - 1915", 1916.〕 In common with other areas of Chadderton, the late 19th century saw Butler Green expand into a cotton mill district with the construction of Butler Green Mill (1863), Melrose Mill (1869), Gem Mill (1901) and others. These mills have now been demolished and replaced with housing developments. See List of mills in Chadderton. Stanley Road School is a long standing educational establishment first built in 1903 and has been used by a variety of primary and secondary schools since including South Chadderton School and Freehold Community School. For a period up to 1988 it housed Butler Green Primary School before reverting to its original name of Stanley Road.〔http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/13911/stanley-pupils-journey-back-in-time〕 Butler Green was quite a substantial village until redevelopment took place in the 1970s. A cluster of shops stood at the crossroads whilst Washbrook Methodist Church, with its public clock, formed the focal point for the community.〔P.125 Lawson, Michael; Johnson, Mark (1997), Images of England: Chadderton, Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-0714-7〕 In the post-war period and on into the 1960s shops on Butler Green included Patch the chemist at no. 8, Monaghan the draper's at 10-12, Spence Bros. butcher's at 13, Whittam the baker at 20, Stafford's fish, fruit, flowers and veg at 22, not forgetting the Clock Corner Restaurant and Dyson's undertaker's.〔Washbrook Methodist Church Centenary leaflet 1962〕 There are three long standing public houses remaining in the Washbrook area. The Washbrook Tavern, formerly called the Britannia Hotel, which was first licensed in 1868, The Owd Tatts, originally called The Commercial Inn, which dates from the 1850s and the Colliers Arms which dates from around 1803 and the opening of New Engine Colliery.〔 Butler Green once had its own police station. Located at the junction of Thompson Lane and Butler Green the building is now used as a hostel.〔P.118 Lawson, Michael; Johnson, Mark (1997), Images of England: Chadderton, Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-0714-7〕 A new parade of shops, including Butler Green sub post office, was built at Butler Green in 1974. 〔P.120 Lawson, Michael; Johnson, Mark (1997), Images of England: Chadderton, Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-0714-7〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Butler Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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