Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester, Greater Manchester
View in John Holland's Wood. During the last half of the nineteenth century Chorlton changed from rural village where people farmed the land to a Manchester suburb. In 1845 there were 490 acres of arable land, 680 acres of meadow and pasture and 10 acres of woodland. To the north in what is now Whalley Range there was Holt Wood and to the south there were Barlow Wood and Holland’s Wood.
