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| Parr Fold Park | |
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 The bandstand and trees in Parr Fold Park. | |
| Type | Municipal gardens |
| Location | Walkden, Worsley, Manchester, England |
| Coordinates | 53°31′01″N 2°23′55″W / 53.51694°N 2.39861°W |
| Area | 18.26 acres (7.39 ha) |
| Operated by | City of Salford council |
| Status | Open all year |
| Website | www |
Parr Fold Park is a public recreational Victorian municipal garden found in Walkden South northwest of central Manchester, England.
History
[edit]Originally, during the 17th century, the land was primarily untouched, sectioned off as fields and meadows. The name Parr Fold came from a cluster of cottages particularly to the south west. and refers to an open enclosure or a pen for animals. With a family named Parr having farmed in this area, it is presumed that the enclosure belonged to them.
Parr Fold Park was formally established in April or May 1905^ . At the time, Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere owned the land where the park stands today. As part of the rapid growing need for parks under the 1848 Public Health Act, he gifted 8 acres of land for the nominal sum of 10 shillings to Worsley Urban District Council (now part of City of Salford) where the majority of the land was subjugated for a public recreation ground.[1] Many contracts were brought to action permitting popular leisurely activities such as cricket and bands however it also disallowed football, a bowling green and a permanent bandstand.
In September 1914, a major landmark for the park, a glacial erratic was discovered at Park Mill, Granville Street, Walkden, one of the most successful cotton mills in Lancashire. It was being extended to double its size and during the excavation for the foundations of this extension that the rock was found and later moved for display in the park near Park Road. It was modified to hold a metal plaque which has since been removed. According to a member of Lancashire Association of Geologists, it has been identified as being limestone and thought to be from the Lake District or Southwest Scotland. It weighed approximately 1 tonne and was created around 340 million years ago.
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