Manchester, United Kingdom

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The Manchester graticule is at latitude 53, longitude -2. It contains, in no particular order:

Manchester, Chester, Liverpool, St Helens, 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 risky bodies of waters should seek local expert safety advice. That said, there is the Leeds-Liverpool canal, which is reasonably safe.

Quirks

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People

Blackburn

• Alexturgid cyclist, based in Blackburn.
• Tekwyzard cyclist, based in Blackburn.

Crewe

• TheGeorge hometown is a small town between Crewe and Northwich, comes back there every University Holiday.

Visiting Geohashers

• Angel lives just off the northern edge, in Lancaster, but may occasionally walk over the boundary (and visits family near Wigan, Preston and Manchester sometimes)
• Sourcerer visits several times per year to see good friends who like beer and curry. Sooner or later there will be a reachable point, perhaps with drag-along and pub/curry geohash potential.
• MontyVisited graticule as part of a coast-line trip

Unknown

• 3Lance
• M.Bryan

Expeditions

Planned occasions

• Angel is planning to walk as close as can be reached to 2012-03-24 53 -2, so if anyone else makes the meetup, maybe we can adjourn to the pub at Bay Horse for a drink afterwards.

2012

• 2012-03-19 53 -2: Angel reached this one on foot.
• 2012-03-15 53 -2: Angel sends his dad to claim a Puppet Master Geohash
• 2012-03-06 53 -2: Reached by Alexturgid and Tekwyzard at 2023 BST (map).

2011

• Everyone is sleeping but Sourcerer visits several times per year to see good friends who like beer and curry. Sooner or later there will be a reachable point, perhaps with drag-along and pub/curry geohash potential.
• 2011-07-27 53 -2: Planned by Monty as the first part of a coast-to-coast triplet. Reached (though not fully photographed), report still pending. (map).

2009

• Everyone slept for a year.

2008

• 2008-10-17 53 -2: Reached by Styles at 21:57pm BST (map).
• 2008-09-19 53 -2: Reached by 3Lance at 6:15pm BST (map).
• 2008-06-17 53 -2: Tried by GeoDom. A field approx 2km SSE from Adlington (map).
• 2008-05-31 53 -2: Effectively reached by Tommy at 3:30pm BST (map).
• 2008-05-26 53 -2: Reached by M.Bryan at 4pm BST (map).