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Freehold is an area of Werneth in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Freehold is centred on Oxford Street and lies between Werneth Park and Oldham's border with Chadderton at Block Lane with which is it contiguous.〔http://media.urbed.coop.ccc.cdn.faelix.net/sites/default/files/Oldham%20Beyond%20Werneth.pdf|Urbed - Werneth Freehold Action Plan〕 The area was partly redeveloped as part of the government's Housing Market Renewal Initiative – the Werneth Freehold Masterplan – comprising Freehold and adjacent parts of north Werneth and south Chadderton, however some parts of Freehold have remained derelict since the early 2000s following loss of funding for the initiative.〔http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/84366/custombuilt-homes-a-key-to-regeneration〕 Freehold Metrolink station opened in 2012 at the Oldham/Chadderton boundary at Block Lane, and serves both the Freehold area of Oldham and the Cowhill/Block Lane areas of Chadderton. The station's position on the boundary means it lies partially in both Chadderton and Oldham.〔http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Documents/freehold.pdf|Freehold Metrolink Station Information〕 Freehold Community School was built in 1982 on the site of Blackridings Mill which was demolished in 1975.〔P53 Gurr, Duncan; Hunt, Julian (1998), The Cotton Mills of Oldham, Oldham Education & Leisure, ISBN 0-902809-46-6〕 The school has a history dating to 1880. The school was originally located on Derby Street, close to its junction with Manchester Road. The school also used the Stanley Road School in the Butler Green area for a period up until the construction of the new school.〔http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/95114/academy-is-aiming-high〕 The Hartford Mill is a Grade II listed building in the area dating from 1907, ceasing cotton production in 1969. The mill, however, has fallen into dereliction and an application to have the building de-listed and demolished has been approved by the owners and the local authority.〔http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/90598/final-curtain-for-derelict-mill〕 ==History== (詳細はA62) at Werneth to the ancient road and hamlet of Block Lane.〔Chadderton Pubs And Their Licencees 1750 - 1999, Magee Rob (1986) ISBN 978 185216 134 7〕 The driving force for expansion was Platt Brothers industrial complex around Werneth Station in the northern part of the area. Platts were for a time the largest manufacturers of machinery for the cotton industry in the world employing some 15,000 people.〔 The opening of Oxford Street led to the construction of side streets linking to Manchester Road and Block Lane and by 1914 the area had been completely covered by rows of terraced housing for workers of Platts, Black Ridings Mill and factories in the Old Lane area lying directly to the south.〔 Freehold had a number of public houses only one of which remains. The Royal Oak, Manchester Road, dates back to 1825.〔P61 Inns and Alehouses of Oldham and their licencees, Rob Magee. ISBN 1 85216 073 X〕 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「Freehold, Greater Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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