23-558: Ordsall may refer to more than one place in England: Ordsall, Greater Manchester Ordsall (ward) , an electoral ward of the Salford City Council Ordsall Hall Ordsall, Nottinghamshire Ordsall Hall School [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
46-454: A feudal due or tax . Antiquarian and Geologist, Samuel Hibbert-Ware gave a different etymology for the name; ord is a Saxon word for "primeval" or "very old" and hal meaning "den" - hence the name Ordeshal could mean "very old den". His reasoning for this was the location in the area of the cave known as Woden's Den. Before the River Irwell was deepened to make it navigable there
69-436: A cost of around £150 million. The regeneration is very much community led and has already delivered a new £6.5 million primary school and children's centre. The school accommodates 315 pupils and also incorporates an 83 place children's centre providing education, health, social care and day care facilities for the local community. A dedicated street sweeper, designed by local children, cleans around Ordsall three times
92-646: A regeneration boom. Average house prices have risen over 100% in the past 5 years, with the area in the centre of key regeneration visions such as the Irwell City Park scheme. A study commissioned by insurers More Than, published in June 2007, revealed that Ordsall had become one of the United Kingdom's property hot spots, ranking 17th out of the 35 identified. The study rated areas by looking at homes occupied by young, affluent professionals. Ordsall Hall Ordsall Hall
115-423: A week in addition to the council services as a result of local concern over litter. Between 800 and 1,000 new homes for local families and first-time buyers will be delivered, a new community hub will cover the whole of Ordsall including Salford Quays ; improvements to Ordsall Park and plans for other play areas and small open spaces are also in the pipeline for 2008. The estate will be opened up to shoppers, with
138-652: Is a Tudor mansion that was for over 300 years the home of the Radclyffe family . In more recent times it has been a working men's club and a school for clergy, the forerunner of the Manchester Theological College, amongst other uses. Like many old buildings, Ordsall Hall is said to be haunted, in particular by "the White Lady", who it is said threw herself off the balcony overlooking the Great Hall. An episode of
161-522: Is an inner city suburb of Salford , Greater Manchester , England. The population at the 2011 census was 14,194. It lies chiefly to the south of the A57 road , close to the River Irwell , the main boundary with the city of Manchester , Salford Quays and Manchester Ship Canal , which divides it from Stretford . Historically part of Lancashire , Ordsall was the birthplace of the bush roller chain and
184-555: Is home to Ordsall Hall . The name Ordsall has Old English origins being the personal name Ord and the word halh , meaning a corner or nook, which has become the modern dialect word "haugh". This, indeed, describes the position of the manor of Ordsall, for its boundary on the south side is a large bend in the River Irwell , which became the site of the docks for the Manchester Ship Canal . Ordsall first appears in records in 1177 when Ordeshala paid two marks towards an aid,
207-457: The Irwell was subject to regular flooding, travellers would have made offerings to Odin, the protector of travellers, before attempting the crossing. He also said that there were strong grounds to suppose that Cluniac monks of Lenton Priory , who had a cell called "St Leonards" at nearby Kersal , converted the cave into a Christian hermitage and served as guides to the crossing at Woden's Ford and
230-550: The TV programme Most Haunted was filmed at the hall in 2002. Salford Lads' Club Ordsall is home to Salford Lads Club , which is featured on the inside cover of the album The Queen Is Dead by the pop band the Smiths . The club is on the corner of St Ignatius Walk and Coronation Street. St Clement's Church St Clement's Church is the Anglican parish church of Ordsall. The church
253-451: The area saw local gangs fire gunshots at police and fire crews. As of 2007, the area is undergoing urban regeneration under a joint venture agreement between Salford City Council and property developer LPC Living. The "Heart of Ordsall" framework, agreed in 2005, means that over the next five years extensive environmental and infrastructure improvements will be made to the Ordsall estate at
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#1732844163583276-796: The area, with the creation of hundreds of homes aimed toward first-time buyers and local residents, including Gresham Mill situated on the River Irwell, Radclyffe Mews on Taylorson Street and Quay 5, a £24 million scheme of 231 flats which sold out in just six weeks. Ordsall Chord railway line became operational on 10 December 2017. This short railway line links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria , increasing capacity and reducing journey times into and through Manchester. It allows trains to run from Newcastle , Middlesbrough and Leeds direct to Manchester Airport without having to reverse at Manchester Piccadilly. Despite its notorious past, Ordsall's location between Manchester city centre and Salford Quays has led to
299-466: The former Radclyffe School site on Trafford Road, earmarked as a new retail centre, replacing the existing district centre. There will be new pedestrian routes and cycle lanes, visibility across the area will be improved to reduce the fear of crime, and there will be improved access to nearby Metrolink stations for the Quays and the city centre . Over £40 million has already been privately invested into
322-711: The head of their order was the Abbot at Cluny , all members of the order in Britain were bound to cross to France to visit Cluny to consult or be consulted, unless the Abbot chose to come to Britain. This he did five times in the 13th century, and only twice in the 14th. In 1056, the first Cluniac nunnery was founded at Marcigny and after this other convents followed including those in the British Isles. The Cluniac nuns were always greatly outnumbered by their male counterparts. In England ,
345-730: The monks of the houses that were part of Cluny members of the Cluny Abbey, with the subordinate houses being Priories of the Abbey. Subsequent orders – such as the Carthusians – were wholly integrated as an order, and modern Benedictines are organised in families which offer mutual accountability, e.g. the English Benedictine Congregation and the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation . Within just a century after its foundation
368-617: The priory of Monk Bretton in Yorkshire ceased to be a Cluniac house, and remained Benedictine, pure and simple, till the Dissolution. Those houses that were larger than cells were known as priories , symbolising their subordination to the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy . The prior of St Pancras at Lewes usually held the position of vicar-general of the Abbot of Cluny for England and Scotland . Since
391-473: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ordsall&oldid=933030156 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ordsall, Greater Manchester Ordsall
414-408: The surrounding marshes in order to supplant the earlier pagan practices. By the 1990s, Ordsall was one of the most deprived parts of Greater Manchester, with some of the highest crime rates. In April 1994, The Independent newspaper reported that the area had unemployment above 20% (around twice the national average) and that arson and car crime were a regular occurrence. In July 1992, a riot in
437-710: The whole area since then has been demolished. The BAFTA award-winning British comedy film East is East , released in 1999, was set in Monmouth Street, now demolished. Cluniac priories in Britain In the Middle Ages , from the 11th century, the Cluniac order established a number of religious houses in England , Wales , and Scotland . Traditionally the Rule of Saint Benedict
460-471: Was an ancient paved ford at Ordsall known as Woden 's Ford and nearby, in a lane leading to Ordsall Hall, was a cave known as Woden's Den. The cave was of great interest to 19th-century antiquarians, but their constant trespassing to view the site prompted the landowner to completely destroy it early in the century, and no trace of the feature remains. However, the cave was described and sketched by Thomas Barret in about 1780. He postulated that, as this part of
483-472: Was interpreted that each monastery should be independent of other houses; this made it problematic to achieve reform if discipline had slipped or to resist the pressure to become a part of the Feudal structure, with the office of Abbot becoming an office at the disposal of the local lord. The Cluniac reform, the first major attempt to offer an institutional response to these issues, was to subvert this by making all of
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#1732844163583506-581: Was opened in 1877 and is now a Grade II listed building . St Joseph's Church St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is one of the few buildings to have survived the Ordsall slum clearances . The church was designed by W. Randolph and cost £5,000 to build, equivalent to £690,000 today. It was opened on Sunday 20 April 1902. The building was severely damaged during the Manchester Blitz of Christmas 1940. The interior has been largely reconstructed and modernised since then. St. Joseph's RC Primary School
529-494: Was rated as outstanding in its 2007 Ofsted report, and one of the 100 top performing schools in the UK. Notable developments include a new primary school for the area, Primrose Hill, as well as an inner-city academy to be affiliated with MediaCityUK at Salford Quays . In 1959 a young Tony Warren got an idea of a drama set on the streets of Ordsall, which ended up into the longest running soap opera in UK history Coronation Street ,
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