Greater Manchester hotels accommodation,
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MAIN TOWNS IN Greater Manchester -
Bolton Bury Hyde Manchester
Oldham Prestwich Rochdale Stockport Wigan. |
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Bolton. Historically part of Lancashire, Bolton is a large
town situated north of Manchester. It is located on the A666,
easily accessed from the M61 motorway at junction 5. It is also
about 4 miles north of Junction 15 of the M60 motorway. Blackburn
is about 12 miles north of Bolton, Bury is about 6 miles east
and Manchester itself is about 13 miles southeast. The town centre
with its stunning architecture has a wealth of shopping opportunities.
Book : A-Z Street Atlas
of Greater Manchester. |
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Bury.
Bury is a town on the northern side of Greater Manchester, between
Rochdale (7 miles) and Bolton (6 miles) and just west of the
M66. Bury is about 4 miles north of Junction 17 of the M60 Motorway
and about 4 miles north of Junction 18 of the M62. It is about
8 miles from the city centre of Manchester. Bury's popularity
has also been recently enhanced by the Metrolink tram/train service
which terminates at Bury, and the re-opening of the East Lancashire
Light Railway which runs daily from Bury (Bolton Street) to Rawtenstall. Book: Francis Frith's Greater Manchester
(Photographic Memories). |
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Cheadle. Cheadle is a small town near Stockport in Greater
Manchester, its neighbours include Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall.
Cheadle is about 4 miles southeast of Junction 3 of the M56 motorway.
The town is about 12 miles from Manchester and 40 miles from
Chester. Cheadle is also about 2 miles south of Junction 2 of
the M60 motorway, the Manchester Outer Ring Road. Book: Guide to Ladybrook Valley Interest
Trail: Cheadle to Lyme Park |
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Hyde.
Hyde is a market town in Tameside, part of Greater Manchester,
it was formerly in Cheshire. It is about 4 miles east of Junction
24 of the M60 motorway, the Manchester Outer Ring Road. It is
6 miles west of Glossop, 8 miles from Stockport and 8 miles from
Manchester. With a population around 35,000 it was built on the
success of the cotton mills in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. Originally there were 40 working mills.
By 1872 only 27 remained, there is one working mill in the town
today. Hyde: |
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Manchester. Manchester is ideally located as a major point of
arrival in the UK with its own international airport. It is well
served by trains with plenty of connections to the Midlands,
London and up the west coast to Scotland. It has an orbital motorway,
the M60, offering easy access and motorway links to the Peak
District, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and North Wales.
Manchester is located at the virtual heart of the British Isles
and is easily accessed via motorway from all major airports and
from the English Channel ports. From the M2 or M20 Motorways,
London's M25 Orbital Motorway is directly accessed, and from
there northwards up the M42 or the M1 Motorways to the Industrial
Midlands. At Birmingham the M6 Motorway leads directly to the
outskirts of Greater Manchester, and then the M62, M60, M602
and M56 motorways lead directly into the city centre. Photo : Manchester. |
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Oldham. Oldham is a large town in the northwest of England,
rising in the Pennine hills 8 miles northeast of Manchester.
Oldham is about 2 miles north of Junction 22 of the M60 motorway
and about 4 miles south of Junction 20 of the M62. It is about
6 miles east of Manchester city centre, 7 miles south of Rochdale
and 10 miles north of Stockport. The pedestrianised town centre
of Oldham offers plenty of shops, two shopping malls and a traditional
market. Oldham FC play league football at Boundary Park. Oldham. |
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Prestwich. Prestwich is a small town approximately 4 miles
north of Manchester and is the most southerly town in the Metropolitan
Borough of Bury. Prestwich is located about 1 mile south of Junction
17 of the M60, about 5 miles south of Bury and 3 miles north
of Salford. It is known as Prestwich Village to locals and is
home to the second largest Jewish community in the UK. It is
believed that the name 'Prestwich' means 'Priest's Retreat'.
Prestwich. |
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Rochdale. Rochdale is situated in a river valley with the
Pennine Hills to the east and the Rossendale hills to the north.
Rochdale is located on the A58, about 1 mile north of Junction
20 of the M62, 7 miles east of Bury and 8 miles north of Oldham.
The borough's location as a crossroads for trade between east
and west England saw the building of George Stephenson's Summit
Rail Tunnel and the Rochdale Canal from Manchester to Yorkshire
(re-opened in 2003 following years of neglect after an east-west
motorway cut through it) supporting local textile industries
of cotton, wool and silk.
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Stockport. Stockport lies between the city of Manchester and
the beautiful countryside of the Derbyshire Peaks and the Cheshire
Plain. Located on the A6, Stockport is about 1 mile east of Junction
1 of the M60 Manchester Outer Ring Road. Getting to Stockport
is made easy with the excellent motorway and railway communications
which are within just a few minutes drive of Manchester International
Airport. The town is 6 miles south of Manchester, 14 miles west
of Glossop and 7 miles east of Manchester Airport. Book: A-Z Stockport Street Atlas. |
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Wigan. Wigan is a large town roughly equidistant to Liverpool
and Manchester. Wigan is located about 2 miles northeast of Junction
26 of the M6 motorway and about 6 miles southwest of Junction
6 of the M61. It is about 4 miles east of Skelmersdale, 8 miles
west of Bolton and 8 miles northeast of St Helen's. Wigan Pier,
once an important loading/unloading building for the mills and
collieries, has been one of the best known Northwest visitor
attractions for the past two decades. Wigan: |
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Greater
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