Manchester: Area
Places and attractions in the Area category
Categories
- Church
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Park
- Museum
- Shopping
- Nightlife
- Bridge
- Theater
- Concerts and shows
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Area
- Town
- Street
- Art gallery
- Music venue
- Shopping district
- History museum
- Art museum
- Shopping centre
- L. S. Lowry
- Library
- Arenas and stadiums
- Music and shows
- City hall
- Bars and clubs
- Concert hall
- Architecture
- Specialty museum
- Skyscraper
- Sacred and religious sites
- Square
- Historical place
- Cemetery
- Garden
- Neighbourhood
- Gothic architecture
- Synagogue
- Universities and schools
- Vernacular architecture
- Memorial
- Canal
- Tower
Salford
Salford is a city and the core settlement of the wider City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the county after neighbouring Manchester.
Salford
The City of Salford is a metropolitan borough with the status of a city in Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford. The borough covers the towns of Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury.
Kearsley
Kearsley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 14,212. Historically part of Lancashire, it lies 8 miles northwest of Manchester, 5 miles southwest of Bury and 3+3⁄4 miles south of Bolton.
Prestwich
Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, 3.3 miles north of Manchester city centre, 3.1 miles north of Salford and 4.7 miles south of Bury.
Radcliffe
Radcliffe is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the Irwell Valley 6.5 miles north-northwest of Manchester and 2.5 miles south-west of Bury and is contiguous with Whitefield to the south.
Eccles
Eccles is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. Eccles is 2.7 miles west of Salford and 3.7 miles west of Manchester, split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south.
Worsley
Worsley is a village in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, which in 2014 had a population of 10,090. It lies along Worsley Brook, 5.75 miles west of Manchester.
Failsworth
Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England, 3.7 miles north-east of Manchester city centre and 2.9 miles south-west of Oldham. The orbital M60 motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was 20,680.
Swinton
Swinton is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. southwest of the River Irwell, 4.2 miles northwest of Manchester city centre, adjoining the town of Pendlebury and suburb of Clifton. In 2014, it had a population of 22,931.
Droylsden
Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 4.1 miles east of Manchester city centre and 2.2 miles west of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689.
Whitefield
Whitefield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on undulating ground above the Irwell Valley, along the south bank of the River Irwell, 3 miles south-southeast of Bury, and 4.9 miles to the north-northwest of the city of Manchester.
Middleton
Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk 5 miles southwest of Rochdale and 5 miles northeast of Manchester city centre. Middleton had a population of 42,972 at the 2011 Census.
Denton
Denton is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, five miles east of Manchester city centre. Historically part of Lancashire, it had a population of 36,591 at the 2011 Census.
Walkden
Walkden is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, six miles northwest of Salford, and seven miles of Manchester. Historically in the township of Worsley in Lancashire, Walkden was a centre for coal mining and textile manufacture.
Pendlebury
Pendlebury is a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 13,069. It lies 4.1 miles northwest of Manchester city centre, 3.4 miles northwest of Salford, and 5.9 miles southeast of Bolton.
Pendlebury
Pendlebury is an electoral ward of Salford, England. It is represented in Westminster by Rebecca Long-Bailey MP for Salford and Eccles. A profile of the ward conducted by Salford City Council in 2014 recorded a population of 13,434.
Manchester city centre
Manchester City Centre is the central business district of Manchester in North West England, within the boundaries of Trinity Way, Great Ancoats Street and Whitworth Street. The City Centre ward had a population of 17,861 at the 2011 census.
Moss Side
Moss Side is an inner-city area of Manchester, England, 1.9 miles south of the city centre, It had a population of 18,902 at the 2011 census.
Chorlton-on-Medlock
Chorlton-on-Medlock is an inner city area of Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Chorlton-on-Medlock is bordered to the north by the River Medlock, which runs immediately south of Manchester city centre.
Ancoats
Ancoats is an area of Manchester in North West England, next to the Northern Quarter, the northern part of Manchester city centre.
Blackley
Blackley is a suburban area of Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is approximately 4.5 miles north of Manchester city centre, on the River Irk.
Ardwick
Ardwick is a district of Manchester in North West England, one mile south east of the city centre. The population of the Ardwick Ward at the 2011 census was 19,250.