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

put things about the odd quirks and idiosyncrasies that the graticule tends to have

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People

Salford

Claire Dodd moved over from West Yorkshire.

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. At last there has been a reachable point but so far no drag-along and pub/curry geohash potential.
MontyVisited graticule as part of a coast-line trip
MagicIan grew up in this graticule and still has family and friends living here.

Unknown

3Lance
M.Bryan

Expeditions

Planned Expeditions

2013

2013-04-07 53 -2: Longhairedred happened to be staying at a friend's house just down the road from this geohash, so walked up after lunch
2013-08-11 53 -2: Angel (talk) saw a hash 9 miles away, straight up the National Cycle Network route 91; but waited until mum got home from work, and got a lift to earn a drag-along acheivement instead of jogging.

2012

2012-12-27 53 -2: MagicIan was staying at his parent's house over the Christmas holidays and spotted this easy hash on a residential street near Hazel Grove, Stockport
2012-08-09 53 -2: Sourcerer drove along the M56. The hashpoint was just east of junction 12.
2012-05-06 53 -2: Epic cycle/scramble/climb hash by Alexturgid
2012-05-05 53 -2: Minimal fuss fertiliser plant cycle hash by Alexturgid
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).
2011-05-01 53 -2: A field right next to the M6 motorway between Crewe and Newcastle, and only a couple of metres off a footpath. Benjw and MrsBenjw called in on the way home from a birthday party in Staffordshire.

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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