Manchester, United Kingdom

Lake District	Carlisle	Middlesbrough
Colwyn Bay	Manchester	Sheffield
Mid Wales	Shrewsbury	Birmingham

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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.

Last Successful Geohash

Styles reached a geohash in the middle of a field on the 17th of October, accompanied by a few friends he dragged along.

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).
• Sunday 13: on a suburbian road (Gerald Rd) north of Peel Park in Salford (map).
• Sunday 27: on the side of a hill about 1km SSE of Widdop resovoir (map).
• Friday 17: On the edge of a field, near a little country lane not far from Chester. (map).
• Tuesday 21: in the middle of a field on the way to Buxton from Congleton. (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).
• 2008-09-19 53 -2: Reached by 3Lance at 6:15pm BST (map).
• 2008-10-17 53 -2: Reached by Styles at 21:57pm BST (map).