RYEBANK FIELDS CAMPAIGN

MarkFeatured, General

The Friends of Longford Park (FOLP) strongly oppose housing on Ryebank Fields, a key issue being the visual impact on the Park (which is a Conservation Area). FOLP has commissioned professional visualisations to illustrate this, click on link for more details.

The origins of Ryebank Road

Richard BondThe Longford Post, TLP Featured

In Old Stretford, Bosdin Leech recalls that on Edge Lane, there were very few houses east of Stretford railway station around 1860.  However, this soon began to change and two early examples were the large houses known as Rye Bank and Meadow Bank, which at a later date came to be separated by Rye Bank Road. The rate books suggest …