Aked Close Substation

Aked Close Substation is an electrical substation in Manchester, England. Aked Close Substation is situated nearby to the sports venue Ardwick Sports Hall, as well as near St Luke’s Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Luke’s Church and 84 Plymouth Grove.

St Luke’s Church

Church

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Luke’s Church is situated 650 feet west of Aked Close Substation.

84 Plymouth Grove, now known as Elizabeth Gaskell's House, is a writer's house museum in Manchester, England. The Grade II*-listed neoclassical villa was the residence of William and Elizabeth Gaskell from 1850 until their deaths in 1884 and 1865 respectively. 84 Plymouth Grove is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Aked Close Substation.

Ardwick railway station

Railway station

Photo: Mark Hebden, CC BY 2.0.

Ardwick railway station in Ardwick, Manchester, England, is about one mile south-east of Manchester Piccadilly, on the Glossop and Hope Valley Lines. Plans to close the station were shelved in 2006 due to increasing activity in the area. Ardwick railway station is situated 2,000 feet north of Aked Close Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ardwick and Universities.

Ardwick

Suburb

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Ardwick is an area of Manchester, England, one mile 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 wealthy suburb of Manchester, but by the end of that century became heavily industrialised.

Universities

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The Universities Corridor is in the south of Manchester. It covers the corridor around the Oxford Road and the Wilmslow Road, from the A57 south down through Rusholme to Fallowfield and the areas immediately either side bounded by the A34 and A5103.