What is "alkrington"

Alkrington or Alkrington Garden Village is an area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester England.

Historically a part of Lancashire, in the Middle Ages Alkrington was a township in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the hundred of Salford. Once rolling farmland, in 1886 Alkrington was added to the Municipal Borough of Middleton, and developed into a residential area.

Alkrington lies on the northern edge of Manchester with Blackley to the south and Moston to the south east. The Local Government Act 1972 added Alkrington to the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale; though Alkrington is separated from the town of Rochdale by the rest of Middleton and rural land.