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This is a list of places of interest in the British county of Greater Manchester. See List of places in Greater Manchester for a list of settlements in Greater Manchester.
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This is a list of places of interest in the British county of Greater Manchester. See List of places in Greater Manchester for a list of settlements in Greater Manchester.
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton Museum |  | Bolton | Museum and art gallery including collections of natural history, archaeology, art and local history, as well as one of Britain's oldest public aquariums. |
| Bolton Steam Museum |  | Bolton | Museum housing a variety of preserved steam engines. |
| Hall i' th' Wood |  | Bolton | 16th century manor house that was the home of Samuel Crompton and was where he designed and built the first spinning mule. Grade I listed building. |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury Art Museum |  | Bury | Museum and art gallery that is home to the Wrigley Collection, an assemblage of over two hundred oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics accumulated by the Victorian paper manufacturer Thomas Wrigley. |
| Fusilier Museum |  | Bury | Museum housing the collection of the Lancashire Regiment, commemorating over three hundred years of the regiment's history. |
| Radcliffe Tower |  | Radcliffe | Remains of a fortified manor house built in 1403 by James de Radcliffe. Grade I listed building. |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallery Oldham |  | Oldham | Art gallery and natural history museum. |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellenroad Mill |  | Newhey | Former cotton spinning mill, part of which now forms the Ellenroad Ring Mill Engine, a preserved stationary steam engine. |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lowry |  | Salford Quays | |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bramall Hall |  | Bramhall | 14th century Tudor manor house that is the ancestral home of the Davenport family. Grade I listed building. |
| Hat Works |  | Stockport | Museum located in Wellington Mill, an early fireproof cotton spinning mill. Grade II listed building. |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckton Castle |  | Stalybridge | Medieval ringwork remains of a castle with a curtain wall built by William de Neville in the late 12th century. |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunham Massey Hall |  | Dunham Massey | Moated hall built in 1616 by Sir George Booth. Grade I listed building. |
| Imperial War Museum North |  | Trafford Park | |
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astley Green Colliery Museum |  | Astley | Former working colliery that produced coal from 1912 to 1970. It is now a museum and has the only surviving pit headgear and engine house on the Lancashire Coalfield. Grade II listed building. |
| Haigh Hall |  | Haigh | Country house built in 1827-40 by James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, it remaining the seat of the Lindsay family until 1947. Grade II* listed building. |
| Haigh Windmill |  | Haigh | Tower mill built in 1845. It is the only remaining windmill in Greater Manchester. |
Manchester is the most-populous city and metropolitan borough in North West England and Greater Manchester, England. The city has the country's fifth-largest population at 547,627 and lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.7 million, third most-populous county, at around 2.8 million. It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east. The city is surrounded by outlying towns and the neighbouring city of Salford. These two cities and the surrounding towns form a large continuous conurbation. The local authority for the city is Manchester City Council.
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The county was created on 1 April 1974, as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, and designated a functional city region on 1 April 2011. Greater Manchester is formed of parts of the historic counties of Lancashire, Cheshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Rochdale, The borough covers other outlying towns and villages with a population of 206,500 at the 2011 census. It is the ninth-largest district by population in Greater Manchester.
Salford is a city and the main settlement of the Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886, Salford is located in a meander of the River Irwell which forms part of its boundary with Manchester. The former County Borough of Salford, which also included Broughton, Pendleton and Kersal, was granted city status in 1926. In 1974 the wider Metropolitan Borough of the City of Salford was established with responsibility for a significantly larger region.
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Oldham, The borough had a population of 237,628 making it is the sixth-largest district by population in Greater Manchester. The borough spans 55 square miles (142 km2).
Manchester Central is a parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester created in 1974 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2012 by Lucy Powell of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party.
The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses the urban element of the city of Manchester and the continuous metropolitan area that spreads outwards from it, forming much of Greater Manchester in North West England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area has a population of 2,553,379 making it the second most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom after the Greater London Built-up Area. This was an increase of 14% from the population recorded at the United Kingdom Census 2001 of 2,240,230, when it was known as the Greater Manchester Urban Area.
In Manchester, England, one third of Manchester City Council is elected each year for three consecutive years, followed by a fourth year without any elections. The Labour Party has had political control in Manchester since 1973.
The demography of Greater Manchester is analysed by the Office for National Statistics and data is produced for each of its ten metropolitan boroughs, each of the Greater Manchester electoral wards, the NUTS3 statistical sub-regions, each of the Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester, the 15 civil parishes in Greater Manchester, and for all of Greater Manchester as a whole; the latter of which had a population of 2,682,500 at the 2011 UK census. Additionally, data is produced for the Greater Manchester Urban Area. Statistical information is produced about the size and geographical breakdown of the population, the number of people entering and leaving country and the number of people in each demographic subgroup.
There are 37 scheduled monuments in Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West England. In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building that has been given protection against unauthorised change by being placed on a list by the Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport; Historic England recommends sites for scheduling to the Secretary of State. Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. There are nearly 20,000 entries on the schedule, which is maintained by Historic England as part of the National Heritage List for England; more than one site can be included in a single entry. While a scheduled monument can also be recognised as a listed building, Historic England's aim is to set the most appropriate form of protection in place for the building or site. Applications to deschedule a site are administered Historic England, who will carry out an assessment and make a recommendation to the Secretary of State.
Memorial Hall in Albert Square, Manchester, England, was constructed in 1863–1866 by Thomas Worthington. It was built to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the 1662 Act of Uniformity, when the secession of some 2,000 Anglican clergy led to the birth of Nonconformism It is a Grade II* listed building as of 14 February 1972.
The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Orton Road, Lawton Moor, Northenden, Manchester, is an Anglican church of 1935-7 by N. F.Cachemaille-Day. Pevsner describes the church as "sensational for its country and its time". The church has been listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England since 16 January 1981.
Capital & Centric Ltd is a private limited company registered at Companies House in England under company number 00752098, specialising in commercial property development. According to Companies House, a large amount of the business is owned by a parent company, which is based in Jersey.
The flag of the Greater Manchester County Council was a symbol of the former Greater Manchester County Council which administered Greater Manchester in England between 1974 and 1986. It has not been registered with the Flag Institute, which will not register flags for counties other than for historic counties.
There are 48 Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings of exceptional interest". In England, the authority for listing under the Planning Act 1990 rests with Historic England, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester is the directly elected metro mayor of Greater Manchester, responsible for strategic governance in the region that includes health, transport, housing, strategic planning, waste management, policing, the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and skills. The creation of the Mayor of Greater Manchester was agreed between the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and Greater Manchester's 10 district council leaders. As well as having specific powers, the mayor chairs the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, also assuming the powers of the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner.
