Baretrees,_Greater_Manchester
Baretrees, Greater Manchester
Human settlement in England
Baretrees (or Bare Trees) is a residential area of Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It takes its name from a former hamlet in the north east of the town in what is now the Laburnum Avenue area.[1]
A local primary school, Bare Trees, bears the locality's name on nearby Holly Grove.[2]
Bare Trees also has an active residents association.[3]
One of the fifteen fatalities of the Peterloo Massacre, Thomas Buckley, was from the hamlet of Bare Trees. Buckley, a gardener aged 62, was described by his neighbours as a 'person fanciful to the fruit garden, a staunch patriot, an enemy to oppression'. Buckley was bayoneted and slashed by a sabre.[4][5]