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Altrincham has been a market town since 1290 when it was granted its charter. Today it is an affluent town with many excellent restaurants, cafés and bars, providing the opportunity to enjoy award-winning food in some of the most chilled and fashionable venues to be found.
If you want to live the lifestyle of the city but relax and be close to the countryside, this is the place.
Altrincham borders the stunningly beautiful Dunham Forest Golf Course and has Dunham Massey Country Park as its neighbour. Here is one of the North West 's greatest plantsman's gardens, surrounded by acres of deer park.
The Metrolink to Manchester has made Altrincham increasingly popular with professionals working in the city coupled with some of the best schools in the country. Altrincham is a "destination" residential hot spot.
Altrincham offers a broad range of property, including the Victorian terraces of the "B" ( Bath , Bold and Byrom Street ) roads which are within a couple of minute's walk of Hale Village . The Downs, Lyme Grove and Norman 's Place area features a large number of detached and semi-detached homes which were originally built for the middle classes during the 1870's.
The roads on either side of Dunham Road including Groby, Booth and Grey all share in benefiting from large houses built for the upper middle classes around the time of 1850 - 1870. Many have been converted into very desirable apartments.
Towards the north of Altrincham during the late 1890's, a large number of Victorian terraced houses were built by the company, Linotype. These unique homes can be found around the Lawrence Road area.
The John Leigh Estate ( Thurlestone Road area) also owes its existence to Linotype, as it is built on the old football pitches and allotments provided for its workers.
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History
The oldest surviving part of Altrincham is around Old Market Place and Church Street (on the A56), dating back to the 1700's. In the 1760's the famous Bridgewater Canal was completed which was the start of improved fortunes for the town.
However, it was the opening of the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway in 1849 which was the real catalyst for the town's growth. The railway brought prosperous industrialists from Manchester searching for residences to match their wealth. In the late 1890's the Broadheath area started to become heavily industrialised with nearly 10,000 people employed there during its peak in the 1960's.
The success of the Broadheath area as a major employer, and the growing number of middle classes living in Altrincham, Bowdon and Hale in the early part of the twentieth century, led to the creation of the very successful primary and secondary schools which are so popular today.
Navigation Road School was opened in 1906, the same year as Stamford Park School . Both Altrincham Girl's and Boy's Grammar Schools opened in 1910 and 1912 respectively. They are still on their original sites. Culceth Hall for girls, fee paying, opened at the beginning of the 1900's. North Cestrian , a fee paying grammar school for boys, opened in 1951.
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