HISTORY

This section of the website covers the history of the Humphrey Park area. 

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Acknowledgements

With thanks to those who have contributed to the content of these pages - it would not be possible without your kind generosity:. 

• Alan Crossland of Urmston for kindly allowing us to reproduce text, photos and maps from his project "The History of Humphrey Park and Newcroft" and his book "Looking Back at Urmston".

• "The History of our Town" on urmston.net.

• "History" on stretfordtowncentre.org.uk.

• Wikipedia pages about Urmston and Stretford.

• "Districts & Townships of the Greater Manchester Metropolitan County" on manchester2002-uk.com.

• "Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lacaster and Chester"  by the Chetham Society 1903 and digitised by Google.

• Oxford History of British Place Names.

• Trafford Council for kindly allowing us to reproduce some of their photos.

• Local newspapers: Stretford and Urmston News; Urmston County Express and News-Telegraph.

• Detailed old map of Urmston, Lancashire on the ArchiUK website.