Quiet interwar suburb north-east of the city, built around Moston Brook and the old Nuthurst estate. Laid out from the 1900s as speculative semis for clerks working in the city; the colliery at Moston closed in 1950 and the land became parkland.
FC United of Manchester at Broadhurst Park, Moston Brook volunteers and long-settled family streets. The best-known landmark is Broadhurst Park and Moston Brook local nature reserve, and the M40 postcodes reach Moston, Failsworth, Blackley, Harpurhey within a short drive.
For a house move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: bay-fronted 1930s semis with drives and long gardens, plus postwar infill towards Failsworth. Brook-valley damp and clay ground mean mossy paving and green north-facing render on the older semis.