page_title: Flixton, Greater Manchester
section_title: Sport
hierarchical_section_title: Flixton, Greater Manchester / Sport
caption_attribution_description: English: William Wroe Golf Course, viewed from the railway.
context_page_description: Flixton is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 10,786. It lies about six miles to the southwest of Manchester city centre, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. Flixton and neighbouring Davyhulme are considered areas within Urmston.
  Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts have been found locally and the area may have been inhabited in those periods. Medieval Flixton was a parish within the Hundred of Salford and encompassed the manor of Flixton, along with its church, first mentioned in the 12th century. The parish comprised isolated farmsteads and a manor house. Toward the end of the 17th century its population began to rise, continuing through the 19th century, although at a much slower pace than its neighbours. Flixton was a remote rural area with few transport links and did not witness the level of industrialisation other parts of Manchester saw, but its connection to the railway network in 1873 helped transform the area into a middle-class suburb.
  Flixton is represented in Parliament by Labour MP Kate Green.
context_section_description: Flixton was witness to bull and bear baiting, performed in several places throughout the village.  One of these was in Shawtown, on "Schoo' Green", and another was at "Th' Grane", at the top of Woodsend Road, opposite where the Red Lion pub once stood.  The practice was ended in 1816.  Badger baiting was also practised, at certain inns. Anecdotal evidence exists to suggest that hunting, cockfighting and horse racing took place in Flixton, the latter in the fields around the parish church.
  Formed in 1990, Trafford Football Club plays in the Northern Premier League. Local golf courses include the privately owned Flixton Golf Club. The William Wroe course, named after Councillor William Wroe, was opened in 1973 as a fourteen-hole course, six holes occupying land on the Flixton road side of the railway, and eight on the Church road side.  The land it occupies was originally purchased by Urmston District Council in 1935, but from 1947 to 1970, aware that it was gradually becoming occupied, Wroe campaigned for the establishment of a municipal golf course.  It was expanded to fifteen holes, then eventually to eighteen holes in 1984, after the nearby Acre Gate Farm became vacant. The course was closed at the end of March 2017 due to council cutbacks.
caption: William Wroe Golf Course before it closed in 2017
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