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
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 particularly safe places to go boating. That said, there is the Leeds-Liverpool canal, which is reasonably safe.

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 Activity

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).

Considered geohashes

2008-06-17 -- a field approx 2km SSE from Adlington (map).

I'm going to try to get to this one. Hope someone else will too! Let me know! GeoDom 23:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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