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Coordinates: 53°27′55″N 2°10′21″W / 53.465314°N 2.172491°W / 53.465314; -2.172491
Gorton is an area of the city of Manchester, in North West England. It is located to the southeast of Manchester city centre. Neighbouring areas include Longsight and Levenshulme.
A major landmark in Gorton is Gorton Monastery, a Franciscan 19th-century High Victorian Gothic monastery.
According to local folklore, Goreton derives its name "Gore Town" due to a battle between the Saxons and Danes nearby. This has been dismissed by historians as "popular fancy". The name Gorton means "dirty farmstead", perhaps taking its name from the Gore Brook, or dirty brook, which still runs through the township to-day. The brook may have acquired that name because of the dirty appearance of its water, perhaps caused by discolouration due to peat or iron deposits.
In medieval times the district was a township of the ancient parish of Manchester in the Salford Hundred of Lancashire.
Manchester City F.C. was founded as St. Mark's (West Gorton) in 1880. The club was formed with the aim of binding the local community and to combat a form of gang warfare called scuttling that existed during the 1870s. The rector's daughter, Anna Connell, is widely credited as the founder, however churchwarden William Beastow is believed to be the person who played the main part in creating sporting activities for the parish. In 1875 St.Mark's Cricket Club are known to have played and this evolved into the football club later in the decade. The first recorded football game was played in November 1880.
Charles Montgomery (born 1968) is an award-winning Canadian writer and photojournalist.
Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, he spent his formative years on a farm on Vancouver Island, and was educated at the University of Victoria and Langara College. Montgomery began his career at the Lillooet Bridge River News the The Vancouver Sun. He lived in Hong Kong from 1996 to 1998, where he wrote stories for the Hong Kong Shipping Gazette and HK Magazine.
Montgomery's writing about environment, adventure, cultural convergence and myth has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States and Hong Kong, including Outside Magazine, Explore Magazine, Canadian Geographic, enRoute, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and The South China Morning Post. His magazine writing has won four Western Canada Magazine Awards, a 2004 silver National Magazine award and the 2003 American Society of Travel Writer’s Lowell Thomas Silver Award for best North American travel story.