The Cornbrook is a culverted watercourse that rises in east Manchester, and on its journey west, travels below The University of Manchester campus before finally emptying into the Manchester Ship Canal (behind the eponymous tram stop). The name \u2018Cornbrook\u2019 is a derivation of Crane Brook, or the brook with cranes (Ekwall 1959: 122), which disappeared from the English countryside in the 1600s (Nick Overton 2021, personal communication). If this derivation is correct, it indicates two things: firstly, the longevity of the brook and its cultural significance; secondly, its original attractiveness as a landscape feature. <\/span><\/p>\n A sign reclaimed from demolished terraced housing sitting in the wall of Bennett Brothers scrap metal merchants, at the western end of Cornbrook Road.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n In its present incarnation, the route of the culverted Cornbrook runs under and beyond the university campus, linking together local and university communities. To explore these connected social histories, we created a digital interactive map that reveals the route of the hidden Cornbrook watercourse by highlighting\u00a0clues within the present landscape. Photograph, text, and video are used to tell the social histories associated with the various sections of the course, such as Greenheys.<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot of Dr John Piprani (left) and Professor Grevel Lindop (right) from a short film, embedded within the digital map, about locating the childhood home of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859),\u00a0who\u00a0described the Cornbrook as running in front of his house in Greenheys.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Our aim was twofold: firstly, to show how research within the university can be used to promote social justice, equality, and diversity; secondly, to offer new opportunities for local communities to engage with work produced by staff and students in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures. Researching and exploring this route has developed partnerships with external cultural organisations and practitioners, as well as important local social projects.<\/span><\/p>\n The digitality of the map allows for the exploration of the Cornbrook at home on a laptop, or on a smartphone whilst actually walking the route.\u00a0Besides helping achieve the requisite number of daily steps, walking the current Cornbrook provides a different, but perhaps no less engaging experience than it would have done when it was populated by cranes. The map can be accessed\u00a0here<\/a><\/span>, and the\u00a0route can be explored by pressing the \u2018Present\u2019 button (see screenshot below). We hope you enjoy your own walk along the Cornbrook!<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot of the interactive map (‘Present’ button circled), tracing the course of the Cornbrook from Pomona Island through to Ardwick.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ekwall, E. 1959. ‘Cornbrook’,\u00a0The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names.<\/em>\u00a04th ed. Oxford. 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