  chorlton-on-medlock is an inner city area of manchester, england. historically in lancashire, the northern border of chorlton-on-medlock is the river medlock which runs immediately south of manchester city centre. its other borders roughly correspond to stockport road, hathersage road, moss lane east and boundary lane. neighbouring districts are hulme to the west, ardwick to the east and victoria park, rusholme and moss side to the south. a large portion of the district along oxford road is occupied by the campuses of the university of manchester, manchester metropolitan university, and the royal northern college of music. to the south of the university's oxford road campus a considerable area is occupied by a group of contiguous hospitals including manchester royal infirmary, to the west of which is whitworth park. ==history==  from medieval times the district was known as chorlton row and was a township of the ancient parish of manchester in the salford hundred of lancashire. towards the end of the 18th century it developed as a residential suburb of manchester and in the extreme north of the township a number of cotton mills were established. in 1820 the parish church of all saints was built. development began in 1793â94 and most of the important streets were given impressive names, oxford street, cambridge street and grosvenor street. kro bar, 325 oxford road, chorlton-on-medlock|thumb|left|140px over the following 30 years residential development spread southwards as far as tuer street: and by the mid-1840s to high street. few dwellings of that period remain today apart from waterloo place, 323, 325, 327 & 333 oxford road, and grove house (316â324).hartwell (2001) in 1830 the town hall on cavendish street was built to the designs of richard lane. on the creation of the municipal borough of manchester in 1838 the township was absorbed into the borough. at this time the southern area was still partly rural with some larger dwellings of wealthy people (e.g., [[
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