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Aerial view down Princess Street to Manchester Town Hall.. Princess Street is one of the main streets in the city centre of Manchester, England.It begins at Cross Street and runs approximately eastwards across Mosley Street, Portland Street and Whitworth Street until the point where it continues as Brook Street and eventually joins the A34.
Greater Manchester is a landlocked county spanning 492.7 sq mi (1,276 km 2) (39th largest in England). The Pennines rise along the eastern side of the county, through parts of the boroughs of Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside. The West Pennine Moors, as well as a number of coalfields (mainly sandstones and shales) lie in the west of the county.
The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36 mi-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire.
Oldham Street. Coordinates: 53°28′58″N 2°14′07″W. Aerial view of Oldham Street. Afflecks from the side entrance. Oldham Street is in Manchester city centre and forms part of the city's historic Northern Quarter district. The Northern Quarter is dominated by buildings that were built before World War II.
Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century, it was the ancestral home of the Trafford family ...
Portland Street, Manchester. Coordinates: 53°28′39″N 2°14′26″W. Aerial view of Portland Street at night. Britannia House, one of Manchester's most imposing buildings. Manchester One (formerly Portland Tower) is among the city's tallest buildings. Portland Street is a street in Manchester, England, which runs from Piccadilly at its ...
01204, 01457, 0161, 01625, 01706, 01925, 01942. The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses the urban element of the city of Manchester and the metropolitan area that forms much of Greater Manchester in North West England.