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Whitegate is an industrial and residential district of the town of Chadderton in Greater Manchester, England. It is located in the south of Chadderton, contiguous with the Nimble Nook, Butler Green, Coalshaw Green and Hollinwood areas of the town and New Moston in the City of Manchester which lies to the south. Whitegate is bisected by the M60 motorway with a junction (21) at Broadway close to the Boat And Horses public house. The locality has two primary/infants schools, Yew Tree and Whitegate End (The area around Whitegate End was formerly served by Butterworth Lane Council School).〔http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3694795〕 The area's long-standing secondary school, South Chadderton School, relocated to neighbouring Hollinwood following amalgamation with the Kaskenmoor School and is now known as Oasis Academy Oldham. The Collective Spirit Free School (CSFS) opened on the South Chadderton School site in September 2013.〔http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/99/chadderton-extra/78662/feelings-run-high-over-free-school-plan| Oldham Chronicle retrieved 23 July 2013〕 A small recreation ground, Princess Park, serves the area. its facilities include a multi purpose games area and childrens playgound.〔http://www.oldham.gov.uk/info/200393/parks_countryside_and_canals/701/princess_park〕 ==History== Whitegate is located in what was previously an isolated rural part of Chadderton archaically known as Hale Moss, which was an extensive common lying between Hollinwood and White Moss in the south of the township. The archaic district known as Theale Moor, which extended into the township of Moston to the south, was also in this area.〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53010| British History Online - Chadderton. Retrieved 17 July 2013〕 Records mentioning Whitegate date from 1556.〔P28 Chadderton Chapters (1972), Lawson M, ISBN 0 9502475 0 2〕 1801 saw the arrival of the Rochdale Canal pass through Whitegate and with it the construction of a new inn by the canal side, The Boat And Horses, built by the Ashton's of nearby Whitegate End Farm. The pub, now rebuilt, remains a focal point of the local community.〔Chadderton Pubs And Their Licensees 1750–1999 by Rob Magee ISBN 978-1-85216-134-7〕 James Butterworth, writing in 1817 described Whitegate End as 'a noted ancient residence, lying near to the boundary of the township west'.〔https://archive.org/stream/historicaldescri00butt/historicaldescri00butt_djvu.txt|"An historical and descriptive account of the town and parochial chapelry of Oldham, in the county of Lancaster" by James Butterworth, publised 1817〕 The stretch of the canal through Slacks Valley was one of the most difficult sections to build as it had to cross two streams. Work at Slacks Valley actually began in 1795 but it took six years to overcome the problems there.〔P8. McPhillips, K. (1977), Oldham: The Formative Years, Neil Richardson, ISBN 1-85216-119-1〕 The early part of the 20th century saw the growth of a substantial cotton mill district at Whitegate, with the Gorse, Rugby, Ram and Ace mills all built between 1907 and 1913. All of the mills survive with the exception of the Rugby which was demolished in January 2014.〔http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/15096-oldham-mill-makes-way-for-new-development.html〕 1925 saw the construction of the arterial road Broadway (A633) pass through Whitegate.〔Lawson, Michael; Johnson, Mark (1997), Images of England: Chadderton, Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-0714-7.〕 1925 also saw the construction of the first Chadderton Power Station built in the Slacks Valley close to Whitegate. 1933 saw exchanges of land between Chadderton Urban District and Manchester City Council (18 acres) in the Whitegate and New Moston area. Land lying between Owler Lane and the railway line was transferred to Chadderton with a similar sized area lying south of Hollinwood Avenue being transferred to Manchester.〔http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10186780〕 The Whitegate public house opened in 1937 at the junction of Broadway and Hollinwood Avenue.〔P.63 Chadderton Pubs And Their Licensees 1750–1999 by Rob Magee ISBN 978-1-85216-134-7〕 1953 saw the opening of South Chadderton (later Broadway) Library in commemoration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II but the library closed in 2009 following an unsuccessful campaign to have the building listed. Yew Tree Junior and Infants Schools opened in 1954 on the site of Yew Tree Farm, the farm house still stands just off Long Lane.〔http://www.yewtree.oldham.sch.uk/about-us-1/general-school-info〕 The area's sub post office, named Whitegate, was closed down as part of the Post Office's restructuring of services during 2008/9. 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「Whitegate, Greater Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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