Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Manchester, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 7.2 km
Ascend 134 m
Descend 159 m

Explore Manchester in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Manchester

Sight 1: Smithfield Market Hall

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Smithfield Market HallTim Green from Bradford / CC BY 2.0

Smithfield Market Hall is a renovated market hall on Swan Street in Manchester, England, which houses a food hall known as Mackie Mayor. The hall reopened in 2017 after years of dereliction.

Wikipedia: Smithfield Market Hall (EN)

567 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Angel Meadow

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Angel Meadow

St Michael's Flags and Angel Meadow Park is a public park in Manchester, England, to the immediate northeast of the city centre, on a slope between the River Irk and Rochdale Road. It occupies an area of 7.4 acres (3 ha), and was once an affluent suburb, until the 19th-century Industrial Revolution altered the social standing of the area and introduced poverty and disease. Regeneration of the park in the 2000s has created a gateway into the Irk Valley.

Wikipedia: St Michael's Flags and Angel Meadow Park (EN)

825 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Manchester Oratory

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The Oratory Church of Saint Chad's, Manchester is a Grade II listed Catholic church in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. It was constructed between 1846 and 1847, on the east side of Cheetham Hill Road. The parish functions under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.

Wikipedia: Manchester Oratory (EN)

897 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: AO Arena

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AO Arena

Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria station in air rights space. The arena has the highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, and the fifth-largest in Europe with a capacity of 21,000.

Wikipedia: Manchester Arena (EN), Website

427 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: National Football Museum

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National Football Museum

The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football. It is based in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre, and preserves, conserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia.

Wikipedia: National Football Museum (EN), Website

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: The Glade of Light

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The Glade of Light Tomasz "odder" Kozlowski / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Glade of Light is a memorial in Manchester, England, that commemorates the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017. It opened to the public on 5 January 2022 and an official opening event took place 10 May 2022. The memorial is in the form of a garden with a stone centrepiece inscribed with the names of the 22 victims. Individual 'memory capsules' commemorating each victim have been included in the memorial and are situated within the stone centrepiece.

Wikipedia: The Glade of Light (EN)

19 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Manchester Cathedral

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Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.

Wikipedia: Manchester Cathedral (EN), Website, Heritage Website

192 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Corn Exchange

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The Corn Exchange, Manchester is a food court and former shopping centre in Exchange Square, Manchester, England. The building was originally used as a corn exchange and was previously named the Corn & Produce Exchange, and subsequently The Triangle. Following an IRA bomb attack on central Manchester in 1996, it was renovated and was a modern shopping centre until 2014. The building was sold to investors and has been re-developed into a number of food outlets. It is a grade II listed building.

Wikipedia: Corn Exchange, Manchester (EN), Website

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: The Old Wellington Inn

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The Old Wellington Inn is a half-timbered pub in Manchester city centre, England. It is part of Shambles Square, which was created in 1999, and is near Manchester Cathedral. It is a Grade II listed building.

Wikipedia: The Old Wellington Inn (EN), Website

378 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: St. Ann's Church

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St Ann's Church is a Church of England parish church in Manchester, England. Although named after St Anne, it also pays tribute to the patron of the church, Ann, Lady Bland. St Ann's Church is a Grade I listed building.

Wikipedia: St Ann's Church, Manchester (EN), Website

390 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: St Mary's - The Hidden Gem

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St Mary's - The Hidden GemTim Green from Bradford / CC BY 2.0

The Hidden Gem, officially St Mary's Catholic Church, is a church on Mulberry Street, Manchester, England. The parish dates back to 1794, with devotion to St Mary, Our Lady of the Assumption, however the church was rebuilt in 1848.

Wikipedia: The Hidden Gem (EN)

139 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Abraham Lincoln

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Albert Square is a public square in the centre of Manchester, England. It is dominated by its largest building, the Grade I listed Manchester Town Hall, a Victorian Gothic building by Alfred Waterhouse. Other smaller buildings from the same period surround it, many of which are listed.

Wikipedia: Albert Square, Manchester (EN)

399 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Manchester Opera House

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The Opera House in Quay Street, Manchester, England, is a 1,920-seater commercial touring theatre that plays host to touring musicals, ballet, concerts and a Christmas pantomime. It is a Grade II listed building. The Opera House is one of the main theatres in Manchester. The Opera House and its sister theatre the Palace Theatre on Oxford Street are operated by the same parent company, Ambassador Theatre Group.

Wikipedia: Manchester Opera House (EN), Website

999 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 14: Cathedral of St John the Evangelist

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The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, usually known as Salford Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral on Chapel Street in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Salford and mother church of the Diocese of Salford, and is a Grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: Salford Cathedral (EN)

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: St Philip's Church

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St Philip's ChurchRicherman (talk) 11:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 3.0

St Philip's Church is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Manchester, in the deanery and archdeaconry of Salford. The church was renamed in 2016 as Saint Philip's Chapel Street. It is located at Wilton Place, off Chapel Street in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

Wikipedia: St Philip's Church, Salford (EN)

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Town Hall

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Salford Town Hall is the former town hall of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It was the meeting place of the County Borough of Salford. Following the abolition of the county borough, it became Salford Magistrates' Court and continued to be used as such until 2011. The court was then merged with the court of Manchester to form the Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court. The building is now in residential use and is a Grade II Listed Building being designated in January 1952.

Wikipedia: Salford Town Hall (EN), Website

1016 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 17: Victoria Bridge

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Victoria Bridge Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. / CC BY-SA 3.0

Victoria Bridge is a stone arch bridge in Greater Manchester, England. Completed in 1839 and named after Queen Victoria, it crosses the River Irwell, connecting Salford to Manchester.

Wikipedia: Victoria Bridge, Manchester (EN)

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