Longsight is on Stockport Road and less than three miles south of the city centre of Manchester. Stockport Road (the A6) is a major route from the city centre to South Manchester, Stockport and Cheshire.
Leisure
Nearby Ardwick Leisure Centre has indoor bowling, karate, keep fit and five-a-side football. Levenshulme Pools, just down Stockport Road offers two swimming pools, a gym, weights room, sauna and sunbeds. Crowcroft Park (Stockport Road) offers numerous facilities : bowls, kickabout area, basketball, skateboard/rollerblade track, and a playground. The Anson Estate is close to Birchfields Park (Birchfields Road) with wide open spaces, playground, and basketball courts and Belle Vue is nearby with multiplex cinema, bowling centre, and greyhound track.
Shopping
There’s a large Asda Supermarket and smaller shops in the centre of Longsight on Stockport Road. Longsight Market on Dickenson Road is open four days a week and offers a wide variety of quality products
Stockport Rd is famous for its 'antiques hypermarket' and retro furniture shops
Food and Drink
Dickenson Rd is well known locally not only for its Market but also for vegetarian and Caribbean cafes.
The award winning 'That Cafe' restaurant on Stockport Rd in neighbouring Levenshulme is another foodie destination and it’s about three-quarters of a mile to the busy Asian restaurants, shops and cafes along Wilmslow Road in Rusholme – known world-wide as ‘The Curry Mile.’
Public Transport
Public transport is excellent, with regular buses along Stockport Road and Birchfields Road.
Levenshulme train station is on the Manchester to Stockport line.
For all bus and rail enquiries contact GMPTE call: 0871 200 22 33 (calls cost 10p per minute from landlines) - Open between 7am and 8pm Mondays to Fridays and 8am and 8pm on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Education
The Anson Estate, west of Stockport Road, has two local primary schools - St Agnes CoE School on Clitheroe Road, and St Robert's Catholic School on Montgomery Road.
Children on the other side of Stockport Road can go to Stanley Grove Community School, Stanley Grove, or St Richard's Catholic School on Wilpshire Avenue.
There are no secondary schools in Longsight itself. The nearest are all about a mile from the Anson estate: Cedar Mount, Matthews Lane on the Levenshulme/Gorton border; St Peters Catholic School, Holmecroft Road in Gorton; Levenshulme High, Crossley Road, Levenshulme.
Facilities for pre-school children include a children's centre, playgroup, and adult and toddler group at Slade Lane (close to the Anson estate) and an Adult and Toddler group at Stanley Grove School, east of Stockport Road.
There is a junior youth club for eight to twelve year olds at Longsight Youth Club, Stockport Road.
The nearest adult education centres are the Plymouth Grove centre on Hathersage Road or at Cedar Mount School.
There's a Library (with internet access, videos and CDs) on Stockport Road.
For High school admissions:
Tel: 0161 234 7150/7151
For Primary school admission and pre-school provision:
Tel: 0161 234 7163
Medical Centre
Ailsa Craig Medical Group
270 Dickenson Road,
Manchester, M13 9YX
(0161) 224 5555
Brunswick Health Centre
Hartfield Close,
Brunswick Street
M13 9YA
(0161) 273 4901
Longsight Medical Practice
526/528 Stockport Road,
Longsight
M13 0RR
(0161) 256 4488
Parkside Surgery
187 Northmoor Road,
Longsight
M12 5RU
(0161) 257 3338
Shiv Lodge Medical Centre
357-359 Dickenson Road,
Longsight
M13 0WQ
(0161) 224 6522
Useful Numbers
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Police/Fire/Ambulance Emergency:
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999 |
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Police General enquiries:
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0161 872 5050 |
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Longsight Police Station
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0161 856 4223 |
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Gas Escapes
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0800 111999 (24 Hours) |
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Gas Customer Enquiries
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0845 6091122 |
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Electric Customer Enquiries
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0845 7888400 |
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Electricity No Supply
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0800 195 4141 (24 hrs) |
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General Enquires
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0800 1950101 |
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North West Water Authority
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08457 462200 (24 hour service) |