Manchester, United Kingdom

–	Carlisle	Middlesbrough
–	Manchester	Sheffield
–	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
• 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.

4th June '08

• The geohash for this day is inside what I suspect is a LYNX Express distribution centre, Leyland, near Preston (map).

Past Geohashes

• Saturday 24: a farmer's field northwest of Crewe (map).
• Sunday 25: a field north of Barnoldswick (map).
• Monday 26: a field next to a forested area north east of Chorley (map). In all likelihood easy to reach from Chorley train station itself.
• Tuesday 27: another field northwest of Crewe, very close to that on Saturday. (map).
• Saturday 31: inside a small paddock near Alsagers Bank, Stoke-on-Trent (map).
• Sunday 1 June: in the Mersey estuary, just off Garston Docks (map).
• Monday 2: the fairway of one of the holes at the Mellor Townscliffe Golf Club, close to Stockport (map).
• Tuesday 3: a field near Higher Walton, a few miles ESE of Preston (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)