Baretrees, Greater Manchester
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Baretrees (or Bare Trees) is a residential area of
Chadderton Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Oldham, south of Rochdale and north-east of Manchester. Hi ...
in the
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Oldham, The borough had a population of 237,628 making it the seventh-largest district by population ...
, in
Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...
, England. It takes its name from a former hamlet in the north east of the town in what is now the Laburnum Avenue area. A local primary school, Bare Trees, bears the locality's name on nearby Holly Grove. Bare Trees also has an active residents association. One of the fifteen fatalities of the Peterloo Massacre, Thomas Buckley, was from the hamlet of Bare Trees. Buckley, a gardener aged 62, was described by his neighbours as a 'person fanciful to the fruit garden, a staunch patriot, an enemy to oppression'. Buckley was bayoneted and slashed by a sabre.


Transport

Baretreees is served by bus service 159 operated by
Manchester Community Transport Manchester Community Transport was a bus operator in Greater Manchester, based in Oldham. History Manchester Community Transport was established as Wythenshawe Mobile in 1980, under the Urban Aid Funding scheme. In 2005 it was rebranded Manchest ...
, providing links to Oldham town centre via Boundary Park and to Middleton via Chadderton town centre, Woodhouses, Failsworth and New Moston.http://www.manct.org/mct-awarded-new-bus-services/, MCT Bus Services - retrieved 21 July 2013


References

{{Geographic location , title = Neighbouring localities , Northwest = Chadderton Fold , North = Royton , Northeast = Boundary Park , West = Park Estate , Centre = Bare Trees , East = Busk , Southwest =
Stock Brook Stock Brook is a residential and industrial area in the town of Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is contiguous with Chadderton's town centre area and with Nimble Nook, Cowhill and Nordens. The ...
, South = Chadderton town centre , Southeast = Chadderton town centre Areas of Chadderton