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 Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and numerous other built up areas.

1st June '08

• The geohash for this day lies in the sands of the River Mersey, just outside of Garston Docks, which is North West of Liverpool airport.(map). Could be impossible/very dangerous to reach.

Past Geohashes (24th - 27th May '08)

• 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).

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)