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. The ...

in the

Metropolitan Borough of Oldham The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is named after its largest town, Oldham. The borough had a population of in , making it the sixth-largest district by population in Greater Manch ...

, in

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Manchester. ...

, 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 The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when the cavalry of the Yeomen charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who ...

, 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

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Royton Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011. Close to the source of the River Irk, near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is northwest of Ol ...

, Northeast = Boundary Park , West = Park Estate , Centre = Bare Trees , East = Busk , Southwest = Stock Brook , South = Chadderton town centre , Southeast = Chadderton town centre Areas of Chadderton