Whitefield, England
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Template:GBdot Whitefield is a town in Bury Metropolitan Borough in Greater Manchester, England.
Originally part of the Earl of Wilton's estate which cut a swathe across north Manchester from his home at Heaton Hall. Whitefield is still very green but most of the rolling acres are golf courses although there is greenbelt protection to the southwest.
Whitefield has only ever been a residential town and is one of the few places in Manchester where you will find £1m mansions and £50,000 ex-council houses within half a mile of each other. In recent years there has been a fair amount of new build on in-fill sites. There is a strong local community but nearby Prestwich is where most shop. The local Philips High School rates slightly higher than the UK average with 56 per cent of pupils getting 5 A-C GCSEs
Whitefield is much favoured by the Jewish community who have a large settlement in the district. The district's proximity to the M60 Orbital Motorway and City of Manchester has ensured that there are many flourishing industries as well as retail parks located locally. There are at least two theories for the origin of the placename. One is that the name comes from the Flemish weavers who used to lay out their fabrics to bleach in the sun; the other relies on the fact that historically Whitefield has been a farming community of open fields and that the name is a corruption of "Wheatfields. The village is dominated by the splendid Stand Church, (All Saints CofE Church), which was a so-called 'Waterloo Church' fund, having been built to celebrate Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. The old district of Stand is also located in Whitefield, and used to be evidenced not only by All Saints, but by Stand Grammar School for Boys (now demolished), Stand Girls Grammar School (now Philips High School), Stand Cricket Club and Stand Lane.