Rusholme

Rusholme is a part of Manchester, England, about two miles south of the city centre. Most of the housing consists of low-cost terraced houses, around 70-100 years old, although some larger houses exist to the east of the main road that runs through the centre in the Victoria Park neighbourhood. Rusholme was an independent town until incorporation into Manchester in 1885.

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Rusholme is acclaimed as home of the largest number of Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) restaurants in the United Kingdom. This led Wilmslow Road to be dubbed "the curry mile". It is said that the curry mile has the largest concentration of Asian restaurants anywhere in the world outside the Indian Subcontinent; there are around 55 curry houses and kebab shops on the road. The street is an extension of Oxford Road where the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University are located. This is also the busiest bus route in Europe, with many bus stops being serviced by one bus from one of six different bus companies every 60 to 90 seconds during peak times. There are a number of purpose built student halls in the area, and a large number of students who rent privately. There is a large, mostly Islamic, immigrant community as well as a community of working class white English people (often of Irish descent).

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Terraced house: In architecture and city planning, a terrace, rowhouse, or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to patio houses) is a style of housing in use since the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The first and last of these houses is called an end...

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