Brunswick is an inner-city area of south
Manchester
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, England, south of
Manchester Piccadilly railway station
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and north of
Manchester Royal Infirmary, between
Manchester city centre
Manchester city centre is the central business district of Manchester, England, within the confines of Great Ancoats Street, A6042 Trinity Way, and A57(M) Mancunian Way, which collectively form an inner ring road. The City Centre ward had a ...
to the north,
Ardwick
Ardwick is an area of Manchester, England, southeast of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 19,250.
Historically in Lancashire, by the mid-nineteenth century Ardwick had grown from being a village into a pleasant and wealt ...
to the east, and
Chorlton-on-Medlock
Chorlton-on-Medlock is an inner city area of Manchester, England.
Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, Chorlton-on-Medlock is bordered to the north by the River Medlock, which runs immediately south of Manchester city cen ...
to the south and west. It was historically part of Chorlton-on-Medlock and acquired its name from Brunswick Street which runs through it.
Its western edge is dominated by campus buildings of
Manchester University
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, east of
Oxford Road, and its northern edge by the
Mancunian Way. The campus buildings have all been built since 1957, and several large new buildings have appeared since the inauguration of the present
University
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in 2004, such as University Place on the site of the former Mathematics Building.
The local Church of England church is Christ Church, Brunswick. There was formerly an Anglican church of St Paul in Brunswick Street (corner of Higher Temple Street). St Paul's Church was built to a design by Clegg & Knowles in 1862; in 1878 it was lengthened and restored by Horton & Bridgeford.
[Fleetwood-Hesketh, P. (1955) ''Murray's Lancashire Architectural Guide''. London: John Murray; p. 160]
References
External links
The Brunswick Estate Manchester History
Brunswick Parish Church Modern Mooch
Geography of Manchester
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