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Manchester itinerary

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  1. 1

    The Northern Quarter - Manchester's Independent Heart

    The Northern Quarter is the part of Manchester most visitors end up photographing without planning to. Red brick warehouses that once stored cotton now hold record shops, tattoo studios, vintage dealers and small coffee…

    Address
    Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M1 1JQ
    Nearest transit
    Shudehill Interchange tram stop (Bury and Rochdale lines), 3-min walk
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    Science and Industry Museum - Where the Industrial Revolution Started

    The Science and Industry Museum occupies the site of Liverpool Road Station, the oldest surviving passenger railway station in the world, opened in 1830 as the Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester…

    Address
    Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester M3 4FP
    Nearest transit
    Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (Altrincham, Eccles and Bury lines), 6-min walk
  3. 3

    Old Trafford and the Etihad Stadium Tours - Two Sides of Manchester Football

    Manchester carries two of the most recognised football clubs in the world, and both run stadium tours that are worth doing even if you follow neither. Old Trafford holds 74,000 and has been Manchester United's ground…

    Address
    Sir Matt Busby Way, Stretford, Manchester M16 0RA (Etihad Stadium: Ashton New Road, Manchester M11 3FF)
    Nearest transit
    Old Trafford tram stop (Altrincham line), 8-min walk; Etihad Campus tram stop (Ashton line), 5-min walk
  4. 4

    John Rylands Research Institute and Library - Neo-Gothic Reading Room on Deansgate

    Enriqueta Rylands commissioned the John Rylands Research Institute and Library in memory of her husband, and Basil Champneys spent a decade building it. It opened to readers on 1 January 1900. The Historic Reading Room…

    Address
    150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH
    Nearest transit
    St Peter's Square tram stop (all lines), 8-min walk; Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop, 9-min walk
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    Manchester Art Gallery - Pre-Raphaelites and a Free Afternoon

    Manchester Art Gallery has been free to enter since 1882, when the city took it over from the Royal Manchester Institution. The Pre-Raphaelite holdings are the strongest outside London, with Ford Madox Brown's Work and…

    Address
    Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
    Nearest transit
    St Peter's Square tram stop (all lines), 3-min walk
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    Castlefield and the Roman Fort - Where Manchester Actually Began

    The Romans built the fort of Mamucium here around AD 79, and the reconstructed north gate on Duke Street marks roughly where it stood. Castlefield became Britain's first Urban Heritage Park in 1982, and the layering is…

    Address
    Duke Street, Castlefield, Manchester M3 4LZ
    Nearest transit
    Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (Altrincham, Eccles and Bury lines), 4-min walk
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    People's History Museum - The National Museum of Democracy

    The People's History Museum tells the story of British working life and political organising, and it holds the largest collection of trade union and political banners in the world - more than 400 of them, some dating to…

    Address
    Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER
    Nearest transit
    Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop (Altrincham, Eccles and Bury lines), 8-min walk
  8. 8

    Salford Quays, MediaCity and the Lowry - Waterfront Manchester

    Manchester Docks handled ocean freight until 1982 and then closed. What replaced them is Salford Quays, and the transformation is more convincing than most waterfront regeneration schemes. The Lowry, opened in 2000 on…

    Address
    Pier 8, Salford Quays, Salford M50 3AZ
    Nearest transit
    MediaCityUK tram stop (Eccles line), 5-min walk; Harbour City tram stop, 6-min walk
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    Manchester Cathedral and Chetham's Library - The Medieval Corner

    Manchester Cathedral dates from 1421 and carries the widest medieval nave in England. The misericords in the quire, carved between 1505 and 1510, are the finest set in the north of the country - look for the backgammon…

    Address
    Victoria Street, Manchester M3 1SX (Chetham's Library: Long Millgate, Manchester M3 1SB)
    Nearest transit
    Victoria rail and tram station (Bury and Rochdale lines), 3-min walk
  10. 10

    Ancoats - Manchester's Best Eating and Drinking District

    Ancoats was the first industrial suburb in the world, built around steam-powered cotton mills in the 1790s, and for most of the twentieth century it was derelict. The mills came back as flats after 2000 and the ground…

    Address
    Cutting Room Square, Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester M4 6AJ
    Nearest transit
    New Islington tram stop (Ashton line), 6-min walk; Piccadilly Gardens, 12-min walk

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