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about Manchester
Manchester is
a city in the north-west of England.
The metropolitan borough of Manchester, with a
population of 422,302, lies at the heart of a
large conurbation called Greater Manchester,
with a population of 2,513,468.
Greater Manchester is also a
metropolitan county in England
established in 1974 which covers an area roughly
encompassing the conurbation of Manchester. It
is situated in North West England. It has borders
with the ceremonial counties of Cheshire (inc.
Warrington), Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire
(inc. Blackburn with Darwen) and Merseyside. As
well as Manchester, the county includes major
centres such as Salford,
Bury, Bolton,
Stockport and Wigan.
Greater Manchester is not entirely built-up. Although
Manchester forms a conurbation along with Salford,
Trafford and Stockport,
other boroughs, such as Wigan
and Bury are clearly separate.
Towns in the
Manchester urban area include Salford,
Sale, Altrincham,
Cheadle, Stockport,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Oldham, Bury,
Rochdale, Stockport
and Stretford. Places
like Trafford and
Salford can be considered
part of the Manchester urban area in a way that
Wigan or Bolton
are not.
The term "Manchester" is often used
to refer to the entire conurbation, much as "London"
is usually used to mean Greater London, but many
of the constituent parts of Greater Manchester,
such as Salford, Wigan and Bolton, also have separate
identities. People from Manchester are called
Mancunians.
Manchester is home to two Universities:
The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan
University. The former is the largest full-time
non-collegiate university in Britain, and was
created in autumn 2004 by the merger of the former
Victoria University of Manchester with UMIST.
Together with nearby Salford University, and the
Royal Northern College of Music, these give the
area a student population in excess of 65,000.
This is one of the biggest student populations
in Europe.
Manchester has a wide variety of buildings from
Victorian architecture through
to modern. Much of the architecture in the city
harks back to its former days as a global centre
for the cotton trade. Many warehouses have now
been converted for other uses but the external
appearance remains mostly unchanged so the city
maintains much of its original character.
Transport within Manchester
Air
Manchester International Airport is the
third-largest airport in the UK (after Heathrow
and Gatwick). In 2003 it handled 20 million passengers
and provided direct flights to over 180 destinations
worldwide by over 90 airlines.
Road
The main roads serving Manchester are the M56,
M6, M60, M61, M62 and M66 motorways. This accounts
for a large percentage of the UK's motorway network
and is the best network provided for any city
in the UK outside of London.
Busnetwork
Manchester and the surrounding area have a good
bus network, with regular services in and out
of the city connecting to all the satellite towns
and villages. Maps of bus routes and a public
transport journey planner for the Greater Manchester
can be found on the GMPTE website
Rail
The city has two major stations, Manchester Victoria
and Manchester Piccadilly, linking Manchester
to the rest of the United Kingdom. There are also
many smaller local stations, such as Manchester
Oxford Road.
Metrolink
A Metrolink Tram in Manchester city centreDespite
Manchester's size, it does not have an underground
train system, such as the famous London Underground
or the Glasgow Subway. Instead, the city has a
tram system called the Metrolink. Operated by
Serco, Metrolink links the city centre to Altrincham,
Eccles and Bury.
Plans to extend Manchester Metrolink
into the surrounding towns and boroughs that form
Greater Manchester have recently been resurrected.
GMPTE (the Passenger Transport Executive responsible
for the Greater Manchester area) is leading the
fight to ensure that the extensions are built,
with significant support from local councils and
community.
Buses
The city's buses are operated by a range of companies
including First Bus, Stagecoach (incorporating
the lower-cost Magic Bus), Finglands, UK North
and R. Bullock. Most major routes are well provided
for, including Oxford Road/Wilmslow Road, one
of the busiest routes in Europe, bringing large
numbers of students from Fallowfield and Withington
to the two universities that have campuses scattered
around the city centre.
Water
One legacy of the industrial revolution
is an extensive network of canals: the Manchester,
Bolton & Bury Canal, Rochdale Canal, Manchester
Ship Canal which provides access to the sea, Bridgewater
Canal, Ashton Canal and the Leigh Branch of the
Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Today, most of these
canals are used for recreation.
Gay and Lesbian
Manchester has the UK's largest gay population
outside of London, and is renowned for its gay
village; centred around the Canal Street area
the gay village is home to various gay shops,
restaurants, numerous bars and clubs, and each
August bank holiday hosts the Manchester Pride
Festival (previously known as Mardi Gras and Gayfest).
Manchester's gay culture was brought to mainstream
attention in 1999 by the acclaimed and controversial
Channel 4 drama series Queer as Folk, which portrayed
life in the village. The year round gay and lesbian
heritage trail exhibits Manchester's colourful
and often dark gay history. Manchester's status
as gay capital of the UK was affirmed in 2003
when it played host city to the annual Europride
festival.
Manchester
removals from: Manchester
City Centre | Ardwick
| Baguley | Barlow
Moor | Benchill
| Blackley | Bramhall
| Burnage | Cheetham
Hill | Clayton |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
| Crumpsall | Didsbury
| Fallowfield | Gorton
| Harpurhey | Hulme
| Levenshulme | Longsight
| Miles Platting
| Moss Side | Moston
| Newton Heath |
Northenden | Rusholme
| Sharston | Withington
| Whalley Range
| Wythenshawe | Towns
& places: Altrincham
| Ashton-in-Makerfield
| Ashton-under-Lyne
| Aspull | Bolton
| Boothstown | Bury
| Castleton | Chadderton
| Denton | Didsbury
| Droylsden | Dukinfield
| Eccles | Failsworth
| Farnworth | Hattersley
| Heywood | Hindley
| Horwich | Hyde
| Littleborough
| Middleton | Oldham
| Peel Green | Ramsbottom
| Rochdale | Romiley
| Sale | Stalybridge
| Stockport | Stretford
| Swinton | Urmston
| Westhoughton |
Whitefield | Wigan.
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