Fallowfield
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Fallowfield is an area of the City of Manchester, England. It lies just two miles south of Manchester City Centre and is on the Wilmslow Road.
The area has a very large student population due to the main accommodation centre of the University of Manchester lying right at its centre, including the Owens Park complex. Of course, the area has many cafes and bars and also kebab houses.
Wilbraham is the site of the stylistically eclectic and, for its time, structurally innovative South Manchester Synagogue (1913).
Fallowfield Stadium
On 25 March 1893, the FA Cup final was staged at Fallowfield Stadium, a site now occupied by the Armitage Centre, a sports facility owned by the university.
The Stadium also included a cycle track built in 1892 of shale (but later resurfaced with concrete), 509 yards in circumference with thirty degree bankings, used for the annual Manchester Wheelers' meeting on the second Saturday each July. In 1950 this was purchased by star sprint cyclist Reg Harris and renamed the Harris Stadium.