Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Salford, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 7 km
Ascend 144 m
Descend 136 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: 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)

999 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: 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

669 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: 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)

544 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: 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 9: 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

623 meters / 7 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

378 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: 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

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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

19 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: 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)

490 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: 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

1000 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 15: 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)

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