During the Middle Ages Theale Moor was the location of a violent land dispute that was only resolved when boundary stakes were set up on the common moorland.

[citation needed] The name 'New Moston' originates from 1850 when 'The Manchester Bridgewater Freehold Land Society' was formed by Elijah Dixon and his colleagues, with the aim of allowing ordinary workers a chance to acquire land, for housing or allotments, away from the smoke and pollution of overcrowded industrial Manchester.

[citation needed] In March 1851, six holdings covering 57 acres at the “top end of Moston”, farmed by tenants of the Hilton family, of the medieval Great Nuthurst Hall, were purchased for £2,900 by the society, the aim being to divide the land into 230 plots.

[citation needed] The brook was culverted and the hollow filled in to permit a road wide, level, and firm enough to take carts and carriages into the estate at 'New Moston'.

These were later renamed Belgrave, Parkfield, Northfield, Eastwood and – combined with the existing Scholes Lane, past Pitt's Farm – Hawthorn Roads respectively.

[citation needed] On 27 January 1914, the Manchester Courier published an article on the Failsworth Club, giving an insight into the club and a general course description at the time: "On leaving Victoria on a stopping train one reaches Moston station in eleven minutes, and the clubhouse is only a niblick shot distant from the platform.

[citation needed] The original clubhouse (known locally as the 'Tin Hut') on Hollinwood Avenue still exists and is now New Moston Conservative Club, but all that remains of the northern end of the course is a path beside the railway leading to Nuthurst Road.

[citation needed] Stotts Tours (Oldham) operate service 151 to Hollinwood via Newton Heath and Failsworth and to Hightown via North Manchester General Hospital.

[citation needed] Manchester Community Transport operate service 159 to Middleton and Oldham via Failsworth, Hollinwood and Chadderton.

[citation needed] The area is also served by Moston railway station on Hollinwood Avenue providing connections to Manchester City Centre and to Leeds.