Vermont
Manchester
State
Country
England
Continent
North America
Size
115 KM2
Population
2,750,120
Spending Budget
$1,093 - $3,680
Famous For
- Town Hall
- Manchester Museum
- Chetham's Library
Best Time to Visit
- January
- February
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
History
Manchester was an urban prototype: in many respects it could claim to be the first of the new generation of huge industrial cities created in the Western world during the past 250 years. In 1717 it was merely a market town of 10,000 people, but by 1851 its textile (chiefly cotton) industries had so prospered that it had become a manufacturing and commercial city of more than 300,000 inhabitants, already spilling out its suburbs and absorbing its industrial satellites. By the beginning of the 20th century, salients of urban growth linked Manchester to the ring of cotton-manufacturing towns—Bolton, Rochdale, and Oldham, for example—that almost surround the city, and a new form of urban development, a conurbation, or metropolitan area, was evolving.
Present Day
Manchester occupies a featureless plain made up of river gravels and the glacially transported debris known as drift. It lies at a height of 133 feet (40 metres) above sea level, enclosed by the slopes of the Pennine range on the east and the upland spur of Rossendale on the north. Much of the plain is underlain by coal measures; mining was once widespread but had ceased by the end of the 20th century. Within this physical unit, known as the Manchester embayment, the city’s metropolitan area evolved. Manchester, the central city, is situated on the east bank of the River Irwell and has an elongated north-south extent, the result of late 19th- and early 20th-century territorial expansion. In 1930 the city extended its boundaries far to the south beyond the River Mersey, to annex 9 square miles (23 square km) of the northern portion of the former administrative county of Cheshire.
Future
Manchester is one of the fastest-growing cities in the UK. With cranes dominating the skyline, billions continue to be invested into the city centre as it evolves into a city of quarters. But with the population set to double in the next five years and the nature of work evolving rapidly, how can Manchester become a global showcase for the workspaces of the future? By combining live, on-the-spot investigation with elements of virtual debate, this dynamic production will take a closer look at the lessons learnt from the past year and how Manchester will lead the way to becoming a world-class, zero-carbon city by 2038.
Liverpool Road
Manchester has undergone something of a renaissance with the introduction of initiatives such as the Castlefield project, with its museum complex on Liverpool Road. Liverpool Road is a street in Islington, North London. It covers a distance of 1 1⁄4 miles between Islington High Street and Holloway Road, running roughly parallel to Upper Street through the area of Barnsbury.
Opera House
The Opera House in Quay Street, Manchester, England, is a 1,920-seater commercial touring theatre that plays host to touring musicals, ballet, concerts and a Christmas pantomime. It is a Grade II listed building. The Opera House is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England.
Chill Factor
Chill Factorᵉ is the UK's longest indoor ski slope; a £31M real snow centre located in the Trafford Park area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. The main slope is served by two drag lifts, suspended from the ceiling thus widening the available piste area and allowing for easier maintenance of the slope. This differs from the other centres in the UK where the lift supports are on the piste.
St. Anne's Square
The area now occupied by St. Ann's Square was once known as Acresfield. The earliest record of this field, which comprised four large 'Lancashire acres', occurs in 1222 when the regent for Henry III granted a licence to Robert Greslet or Grelly, the first Norman baron to settle in 'Mamcestre'. Grelly was lord of the manor, and requested a licence to hold an annual fair on the eve and feast of St. Matthew.
King Street
King Street is one of the most important thoroughfares of Manchester city centre, England. For much of the 20th century it was the centre of the north-west banking industry but it has become progressively dominated by expensive shops instead of large banks.
Royal Exchange
Known as the father of English banking, wealthy merchant Sir Thomas Gresham establishes The Royal Exchange as London's first purpose-built centre for trading stocks. It is modelled on the Bourse in Antwerp, the world's oldest financial exchange, where Gresham had been based as a royal agent.
Bolton Arcade
An amusement arcade is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers, or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables.
Roman Fort
County archaeologist Norman Redhead reveals all about the first age of Manchester - Mamucium. The Roman fort of Mamucium was established by 78 AD at a site overlooking the confluence of the rivers Irwell and Medlock. This was a timber fort with earthen ramparts for an auxiliary cohort of infantry of around 500 men.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.
Castlefield Art Gallery
Established by artists in 1984, this vital arts space is the first public contemporary visual art gallery to have opened in Manchester and has gone on to become a key part of the North of England’s cultural fabric. The gallery itself offers a public programme of exhibitions, projects and events at its main space on the edge of Manchester’s exhilarating Castlefield district.