Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Salford, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 8.4 km
Ascend 165 m
Descend 134 m

Explore Salford 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 Salford

Sight 1: Ordsall Hall

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Ordsall Hall is a large former manor house in the historic parish of Ordsall, Lancashire, now part of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It dates back more than 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century. The most important period of Ordsall Hall's life was as the family seat of the Radclyffe family, who lived in the house for more than 300 years. The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned in the house.

Wikipedia: Ordsall Hall (EN)

462 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: St Clement

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St Clement's Church is a Grade II listed building on Hulton Street, Ordsall, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester.

Wikipedia: St Clement's Church, Ordsall (EN)

1635 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 3: River Irwell Railway Bridge

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The River Irwell Railway Bridge was built for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (L&MR), the world's first passenger railway which used only steam locomotives and operated as a scheduled service, near Water Street in Manchester, England. The stone railway bridge, built in 1830 by George Stephenson, was part of Liverpool Road railway station. The bridge was designated a Grade I listed building on 19 June 1988.

Wikipedia: River Irwell Railway Bridge (EN)

716 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Science and Industry Museum

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The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, traces the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group, a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, having merged with the National Science Museum in 2012.

Wikipedia: Science and Industry Museum (EN), Website

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Mamucium

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Mamucium, also known as Mancunium, is a former Roman fort in the Castlefield area of Manchester in North West England. The castrum, which was founded c. AD 79 within the Roman province of Roman Britain, was garrisoned by a cohort of Roman auxiliaries near two major Roman roads running through the area. Several sizeable civilian settlements containing soldiers' families, merchants and industry developed outside the fort. The area is a protected Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Wikipedia: Mamucium (EN), Heritage Website

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Castlefield Gallery

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The Castlefield Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, located at 2 Hewitt Street, Knott Mill, Manchester. The gallery, a resource for contemporary visual artists, was founded by Manchester Artists Studio Association in 1984. The gallery has an exhibition and events programme, provides a professional development scheme for artists in its Project Space and PureScreen screens film and video works.

Wikipedia: Castlefield Gallery (EN), Website

568 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: Bridgewater Hall

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The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé Choir and Hallé Youth Orchestra and it serves as the main concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic.

Wikipedia: Bridgewater Hall (EN), Website

442 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Great Northern

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The Great Northern Warehouse is the former railway goods warehouse of the Great Northern Railway in Manchester city centre, England, which was refurbished into a leisure complex in 1999. The building is at the junction of Deansgate and Peter Street. It was granted Grade II* listed building status in 1974.

Wikipedia: Great Northern Warehouse (EN)

398 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: 53two

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53two is a theatre located under in the Grade II* listed arches under Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester, England. It is part of the Greater Manchester Small Venues Network, alongside the Hope Mill Theatre, the Edge Theatre and the Kings Arms Theatre.

Wikipedia: 53two (EN), Website

479 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Peterloo Memorial

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The Peterloo Memorial is a memorial in Manchester, England, commemorating the Peterloo Massacre. Designs for the memorial by the artist Jeremy Deller were unveiled in November 2018. It is sited close to the site of the massacre and was unveiled on 14 August 2019. It comprises a series of concentric circular stone steps engraved with the names of the 18 victims and the places the marchers had come from, rising to 6 feet (1.8 m) at the centre. The lack of disabled access to the monument has been criticised.

Wikipedia: Peterloo Memorial (EN)

346 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Albert Hall

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Albert HallTim Green from Bradford / CC BY 2.0

The Albert Hall is a music venue in Manchester, England.

Wikipedia: Albert Hall, Manchester (EN)

418 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Cenotaph

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Manchester Cenotaph is a war memorial in St Peter's Square, Manchester, England. Manchester was late in commissioning a First World War memorial compared with most British towns and cities; the city council did not convene a war memorial committee until 1922. The committee quickly achieved its target of raising £10,000 but finding a suitable location for the monument proved controversial. The preferred site in Albert Square would have required the removal and relocation of other statues and monuments, and was opposed by the city's artistic bodies. The next choice was Piccadilly Gardens, an area already identified for a possible art gallery and library; but in the interests of speedier delivery, the memorial committee settled on St Peter's Square. The area within the square had been purchased by the City Council in 1906, having been the site of the former St Peter's Church; whose sealed burial crypts remained with burials untouched and marked above ground by a memorial stone cross. Negotiations to remove these stalled so the construction of the cenotaph proceeded with the cross and burials in situ.

Wikipedia: Manchester Cenotaph (EN)

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Manchester Art Gallery

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Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. Both of Barry's buildings are listed. The building that links them was designed by Hopkins Architects following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions. It opened in 2002 following a major renovation and expansion project undertaken by the art gallery.

Wikipedia: Manchester Art Gallery (EN), Website

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Rise up, Women

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Rise up, Women, also known as Our Emmeline, is a bronze sculpture of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter's Square, Manchester. Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. Hazel Reeves sculpted the figure and designed the Meeting Circle that surrounds it.

Wikipedia: Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue) (EN)

472 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Canada House

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Canada House Stephen Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0

Canada House is an Art Nouveau-style office building on Chepstow Street in Manchester, England. Constructed originally as a packing warehouse, the building opened in 1909. Designed by local architects W & G Higginbottom, the building has features consistent with art nouveau and has a terracotta exterior.

Wikipedia: Canada House, Manchester (EN)

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Palace Theatre

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The Palace Theatre is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England. It is situated on Oxford Street, on the north-east corner of the intersection with Whitworth Street. The Palace and its sister theatre the Opera House on Quay Street are operated by the same parent company, Ambassador Theatre Group. The original capacity of 3,675 has been reduced to its current 1,955.

Wikipedia: Palace Theatre, Manchester (EN), Website

454 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Sackville Gardens

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Sackville Gardens is a public space in Manchester, England. It is bounded by Manchester College's Shena Simon Campus on one side and Whitworth Street, Sackville Street, the Rochdale Canal and Canal Street on the others.

Wikipedia: Sackville Gardens (EN)

5 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 18: Alan Turing Statue

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The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing.

Wikipedia: Alan Turing Memorial (EN)

499 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Victory over Blindness

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Victory over Blindness David Dixon / CC BY-SA 2.0

Victory Over Blindness is a bronze sculpture in Manchester, England, by Johanna Domke-Guyot. It is on Piccadilly Approach outside the main entrance of Manchester Piccadilly station and was commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

Wikipedia: Victory Over Blindness (EN)

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