Difference between revisions of "Manchester, United Kingdom"
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The Manchester [[graticule]] is at [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=53&long=-3&zoom=8&abs=1 latitude 53, longitude -2]. It contains, in no particular order: | The Manchester [[graticule]] is at [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=53&long=-3&zoom=8&abs=1 latitude 53, longitude -2]. It contains, in no particular order: | ||
Revision as of 18:22, 5 July 2008
| Lake District | Carlisle | Middlesbrough |
| Colwyn Bay | Manchester | Sheffield |
| Mid Wales | Shrewsbury | Birmingham East |
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The Manchester graticule is at latitude 53, longitude -2. It contains, in no particular order:
- Manchester
- Chester
- Liverpool
- Preston
- Bolton
- Blackburn
- Stockport
- Macclesfield
- Wigan
as well as numerous other built up areas, including the greater parts of the Stoke-on-Trent and Wrexham areas. Water geohashes are rare, but the graticule does contain the estuaries of the Mersey and Ribble rivers, as well as a small part of Morecambe Bay. Anyone wishing to go exploring these particular bodies of waters is generally advised against it. They're not particular safe places to go boating.
5th July '08
Can't quite stand around there due to it being on a bypass (lifts from nearby minor road appreciated, if anyone's coming by car!) but will be on the minor road just to the east.
Past Geohashes
- Monday 16: a field near the River Chor, a few miles West of Chorley (map).
- Tuesday 17: a field approx 2km SSE from Adlington (map).
- Wednesday 18: on the St Michaels Jubilee golf course in Widnes (map).
- Thursday 19: in a house's back garden east of central Halewood, Merseyside (map).
- Friday 20: in a field approx 2km west of Cowling (map).
- Saturday 21: in a field less than 1km NE of Marshaw (map).
- Sunday 22: Just off the shore of Clowbridge Reservoir (map).
- Monday 23: somewhere (map).
- Tuesday 24: a field near the River Chor, a few miles West of Chorley (map).
- Wednesday 25: in a field approx 1 km WSW of Lower Green Bank (map).
- Tuesday 1 July: in a field approx 1 km S of Helsby Train Station (map).
- Wednesday 2: in the mersey estuary, very close to Liverpool John Lennon Airport (map).
- Thursday 3: a farmer's yard at the northern end of the Graticule, at least 5 miles from the nearest town (map).
- Friday 4: along the side of Preston Street in southern St Helens (map).
Reached Geohashes
- 2008-05-26 53 -2: Reached by M.Bryan at 4pm BST (map).
- 2008-05-31 53 -2: Effectively reached by Tommy at 3:30pm BST (map). Tommy 01:54, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
