Gorton

  • Gorton Introduction

    David Boyd Nov 18, 2015, 12:52 PM
    Gorton North
    Gorton North Map

    Gorton South
    Gorton South Map


    Gorton is a mainly residential area with good transport links to the City Centre, M60 and East Manchester. The area offers some significant opportunities. For example the sites along Hyde Road provide a major opportunity for physical change and redevelopment. Gorton ...
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  • Manchester Gorton Market

    David Boyd Nov 18, 2015, 14:13 PM
    Gorton Market

    In 2006, Manchester City Council started a multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Gorton District Shopping Centre. The small market and retail area was demolished and work started in late 2007 to construct a brand new market hall and a new Tesco Supermarket on this site. Further ...
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  • Gorton Education Village

    David Boyd Nov 18, 2015, 14:12 PM
    Gorton Education Village

    Manchester's first completed BSF project, Gorton Education Village, opened in September 2008, bringing two schools - a comprehensive and a specialist SEN college - together on a one eight-acre campus. The Gorton Education Village project in East Manchester has created a single-site campus on an ...
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  • Gorton Buses

    David Boyd Nov 18, 2015, 14:11 PM
    There are numerous busses serving Gorton please look at the gmpte webside for further details.
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  • Gorton Train Station

    David Boyd Nov 18, 2015, 14:10 PM
    This small train station with ramp access to both platforms is unmanded at all times. There is no regular bus service from this station and it is a good 15 minute walk to Hyde road which gives access to bus services into Manchester City Centre. ...
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  • Gorton Monastrey

    David Boyd Nov 18, 2015, 13:57 PM
    Gorton Monastry

    Gorton is home to Gorton Monastery, a Franciscan, 19th-century High Victorian Gothic Monastery. These historic buildings were built between 1863 and 1872 by Franciscan monks who had come to Manchester in 1861 to serve the local Catholic community. Gorton Monastery is considered one of his ...
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