Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Manchester, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 5.3 km
Ascend 72 m
Descend 63 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: St Mary's Church

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The Church of St Mary, Upper Moss Lane, Hulme, Manchester, is a Gothic Revival former church by J. S. Crowther built in 1853–58. It was designated a Grade II* listed building on 3 October 1974.

Wikipedia: Church of St Mary, Hulme (EN)

501 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Hulme Hippodrome

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The Hulme Hippodrome in Manchester, England, is a Grade II listed building, a proscenium arch theatre with two galleries and a side hall. It was originally known as the Grand Junction Theatre and Floral Hall, and opened on 7 October 1901 on the former main road of Preston Street, Hulme. It was also used for repertory theatre in 1940s, and for recording BBC programmes with audiences between 1950 and 1956. The theatre has been closed since 2018 and a campaign group exists to bring it back into use as a community resource. The stage doors are on Warwick Street. Its local name in memoirs and records is 'The Hipp'. Its national heritage significance includes being the venue for recording live the first three series of broadcast programmes by Morecambe and Wise.

Wikipedia: Hulme Hippodrome (EN)

1767 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 3: Contact

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Contact is an arts organisation based in Manchester, England. Established in 1972, as a center for young artists to create and learn, the theatre remains in its original building and is a part of the Arts Council England, the University of Manchester, the Manchester City Council, and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities..

Wikipedia: Contact Theatre (EN)

306 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Accomodation Office

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Grove House, on Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England, is an early Victorian building, originally three houses, of 1838–40. It is a Grade II* listed building as of 18 December 1963.

Wikipedia: Grove House, Manchester (EN)

310 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: The Holy Name Catholic Church

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The Holy Name Catholic Church

The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus on Oxford Road, Manchester, England was designed by Joseph A. Hansom and built between 1869 and 1871. The tower, designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott, was erected in 1928 in memory of Fr Bernard Vaughan, SJ. The church has been Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since 1989, having previously been Grade II* listed since 1963.

Wikipedia: Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester (EN)

330 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: The Manchester Museum

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Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road (A34) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent. It is the UK's largest university museum and serves both as a major visitor attraction and as a resource for academic research and teaching. It has around 430,000 visitors each year.

Wikipedia: Manchester Museum (EN), Website

822 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 7: The Dancehouse

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The Dancehouse is a dance centre at 10 Oxford Road, Manchester, England. Formerly, the dance house was the Regal Cinema.

Wikipedia: Dancehouse (EN)

1303 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 8: Ardwick Green

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Ardwick Green is a public space in Ardwick, Manchester, England. It began as a private park for the residents of houses surrounding it before Manchester acquired it in 1867 and turned it into a public park with an ornamental pond and a bandstand.

Wikipedia: Ardwick Green (EN)

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