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City guide · United Kingdom

Manchester

A photograph of Manchester
Photograph · Daniel Nisbet from Manchester, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0

Manchester began as Mamucium, a Roman fort put up around AD 79 on a sandstone bluff where the Medlock joins the Irwell, and stayed a manorial township for the whole of the Middle Ages. Textiles changed that: the boom made it the world's first industrialised city, it took city status in 1853, and the Ship Canal opened in 1894 to give an inland town a port 58 km from the Irish Sea. Some 589,000 people lived in the city in 2024, though it runs straight into Salford and a ring of towns to form a built-up area of 2.87 million.

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Planning a visit

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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  15. 256
    15 2 hours

    256

    • Notable
    • Nightlife venue
  16. 33
    16 2 hours

    33

    • Notable
    • Nightlife venue
  18. 532
    18 2 hours

    532

    • Notable
    • Nightlife venue
  19. 53two
    19 1 hour

    53two

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
  21. 7Sins
    21 2 hours

    7Sins

    • Notable
    • Nightlife venue
  22. Aatma
    22 2 hours

    Aatma

    • Notable
    • Nightlife venue

How the city is laid out

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Getting around

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Plan Manchester