Manchester, United Kingdom

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.

Macclesfield

_nod new to Geohashing.

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 Expeditions

2012-05-09 53 -2 - Angel might be trying to reach this one :)

2012

2012-03-31 53 -2 - A saturday expedition, which Angel reached, as did a couple of other folks.
2012-03-24 53 -2: Angel on foot, and Jonno on his biking hash, met at the destination, took some picture, then went to the pub.
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).

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