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City Centre Bolton
Bolton
~2.15 miles from Farnworth city center
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Astley Green Colliery Museum
~4.01 miles from Farnworth city center
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Buile Hill Park
Manchester
~6.05 miles from Farnworth city center
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The Trafford Centre
Salford
~6.29 miles from Farnworth city center
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The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre located in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, the nearest towns being Davyhulme and Urmston. The planning process for the Trafford Centre was one of the longest and most expensive in the history of the United Kingdom. Ultimately the matter was decided by the House of Lords.The Trafford Centre is a major sponsor of Salford City Reds rugby league club. Shortly after its opening, the centre provided the setting for Shopping City, a BBC2 daytime programme.
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Heaton Park
Manchester
~6.33 miles from Farnworth city center
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Heaton Park, covering an area variously reported as 600 acres (242.8 ha), 247 hectares, 640 acres (259.0 ha), over 640 acres (259.01 hectares) and 650 acres (263.0 ha) is the biggest park in Greater Manchester, England and one of the biggest municipal parks in Europe. The park comprises the grounds of a Grade I listed, neoclassical 18th-century country house, Heaton Hall. The hall was remodelled to a design by James Wyatt in 1772, and is now open to the public as a museum and events venue.Heaton Park was sold to Manchester City Council in 1902, by the Earl of Wilton, to be kept for the enjoyment and recreation of the public and so it has remained to this day. It has one of the United Kingdom's few concrete towers, the Heaton Park BT Tower.The park was renovated as part of a millennium...
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Trafford Ecology Park
Salford
~6.57 miles from Farnworth city center
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Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. Located opposite Salford Quays, on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, it is 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west-southwest of Manchester city centre, and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford.Trafford Park is almost entirely surrounded by water. The Bridgewater Canal forms its southeastern and southwestern boundaries, and the Manchester Ship Canal its northeastern and northwestern boundaries. The park, occupying an area of 3,000 acres (12 km2), was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and is still the largest in Europe. It was an important supplier of materiel during the First and Second World Wars, and produced the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines used to power both the Spitfire an...
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Heaton Hall
Manchester
~7.07 miles from Farnworth city center
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The hall, has been a Grade I Listed Building since 1952 and has been called "the finest house of its period in Lancashire". It is built of sandstone and stuccoed brick, in a traditional Palladian design with the entrance on the north side and the facade on the south. The landscaping was designed to make the most of the uninterrupted views of the rolling hills across to the Pennines. An important feature of this was the ha-ha, used to keep the grazing animals, so important to the landscaping, away from the formal lawns, with a barrier that was all-but invisible from the house.The state rooms include the Library, the Music Room, Dining Room, and upstairs, a rather rare Etruscan Room. The rooms of the hall were exquisitely finished by the finest artists and craftsmen of the period, with mos...
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Trafford Park Heritage Centre
Salford
~7.09 miles from Farnworth city center
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Based in the former St Anthony's School, the heritage centre houses a permanent exhibition of Trafford Park History, in particular the village area. Exhibitions are held annually, featuring different aspects of Trafford Park history.ParkingOn site parking, Parking (free) Opening01 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2015Monday 10:00-16:30Tuesday 10:00-16:30Wednesday 10:00-16:30Thursday 10:00-16:30Friday 10:00-16:30Based in the former St Anthony's School, the heritage centre houses a permanent exhibition of Trafford Park History, in particular the village area. Exhibitions are held annually, featuring different aspects of Trafford Park history. The centre also houses the Trafford Park archive. A short walking tour of the village area is available. Talks on the history and development...
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Lowry Art Gallery
Manchester
~7.21 miles from Farnworth city center
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Set in a magnificent waterside location at the heart of the redeveloped Salford Quays in Greater Manchester, The Lowry is an architectural flagship with a unique and dynamic identity. Rising from the regenerated docklands, it is a welcoming building, designed to reflect the surrounding landscapes and flourishing waterways, in its glass and metallic surfaces.The Lowry opened on 28th April 2000, bringing together a wide variety of performing and visual arts under one roof. Opening its door to the best in entertainment and education in the arts, The Lowry aims to give everyone access to new areas of creativity and to embrace its broad community.
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Imperial War Museum N
Manchester
~7.33 miles from Farnworth city center
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Imperial War Museum North, war, Manchester, Salford, Eccles, Old Trafford , Trafford , Urmston, England, Walking tour, art, museum, history, entertainment, education, family, tourism, tours, artifacts, historical siteImperial War Museum North (sometimes referred to as IWM North) is a museum in Greater Manchester, England. One of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum, the museum explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society. It is the first branch of the Imperial War Museum to be located in the north of England. The museum occupies a site overlooking the Manchester Ship Canal in Trafford Park, an area which during the Second World War was a key industrial centre and consequently heavily bombed during the Manchester Blitz in 1940. The area is now home to the Lowry ...
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Manchester United Museum
Manchester
~7.79 miles from Farnworth city center
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Manchester United Museum is located on Sir Matt Busby Way at Old Trafford, the Theatre of Dreams that’s one of the world’s most famous football stadiums, and boasts the biggest capacity in the English Premiership (76,000, and rising!). The Manchester United Museum is at the heart of the complex in the North Stand and has a quarter of a million visitors a year, enjoying a family day out to one of the world's top football clubs – and the richest, with an average turnover of three-quarters of a billion pounds!A ticket to Manchester United Museum might not get its holder into the Director’s box on match days, but it certainly affords otherwise unprecedented access to a host of a hallowed artefacts and makes for an awe-inspiring family day out, whether you’re a Red Devil or not. The Manc...
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Old Trafford (Theatre of Dreams)
Manchester
~7.82 miles from Farnworth city center
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Old Trafford is an all-seater football stadium in the Trafford borough of Greater Manchester, England, and is the home of Premier League club Manchester United. With space for 75,957 spectators, Old Trafford has the second-largest capacity of any English football stadium after Wembley Stadium, the third-largest of any stadium in the United Kingdom, and the eleventh-largest in Europe. With Wembley, it is one of two stadia in the country to have been given a five-star rating by UEFA. The stadium is approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from Old Trafford Cricket Ground and the adjacent Manchester Metrolink tram station.The ground, given the nickname the Theatre of Dreams by Bobby Charlton, has been United's permanent residence since 1910, with the exception of an eight-year absence from 1941 to ...
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People's History Museum
Manchester
~8.04 miles from Farnworth city center
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The People's History Museum in Manchester, England is the United Kingdom's national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in the UK.Formerly the National Museum of Labour History, it has been known by its present name since 2001. It is located in a Grade II listed, former hydraulic pumping station on the corner the of Bridge Street and Water Street designed by City architect Henry Price.[1][2][3]The museum tells the story of the history of democracy in Britain and about ordinary people’s lives at home, work and leisure over the last 200 years. It contains a collection of printed material, physical objects and photographs which celebrate the lives of ordinary people at work, rest and play. Some of the topi...
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Manchester Jewish Museum
Manchester
~8.07 miles from Farnworth city center
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Manchester Jewish Museum tells the story of the Jewish community in Manchester, England over the last 200 years. It occupies the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road and is a grade II* listed building The Synagogue was completed in 1874 but later the building became redundant through the migration of the Jewish population away from the Cheetham area further North to Prestwich and Whitefield. It was re-opened as a museum in March 1984.The museum building was built in the Moorish Revival style by the noted Manchester architect Edward Salomons in 1874. Although it is far from being the largest or most magnificent of the world's many Moorish revival synagogues, which include the opulent Princes Road Synagogue in nearby Liverpool, it is considered by architectur...
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Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Manchester
~8.12 miles from Farnworth city center
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Old Trafford Cricket Ground, usually referred to as Old Trafford, is a cricket ground situated on Talbot Road in Old Trafford. It has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since its foundation in 1864, although it was the ground of Manchester Cricket Club from 1856. International Test matches have been played there since 1884.
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Manchester Evening News Arena (M.E.N. Arena)
Manchester
~8.14 miles from Farnworth city center
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The Manchester Evening News Arena or M.E.N. Arena (commonly referred to as just The M.E.N. or simply Manchester Arena) is a large indoor arena in Manchester, England. It is currently sponsored by the Manchester Evening News and has a capacity of 3,000 to a maximum capacity of 23,000 depending on the event being staged, making it one of the largest indoor arenas in Europe. It was opened in 1995, and was initially sponsored by NYNEX (a British cable television provider, as opposed to the NYNEX Corporation, a telephone service provider in the United States) as the NYNEX Arena. The Arena took its current name in 1998 after the NYNEX brand name had disappeared as a result of a merger with Mercury Communications in 1997.The M.E.N. Arena is one of the world's busiest indoor arenas and concert v...
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Manchester Cathedral
Manchester
~8.17 miles from Farnworth city center
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Manchester Cathedral is a Medieval church located on Victoria Street in central Manchester and is the seat of the Bishop of Manchester. The cathedral's official name is The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George in Manchester. It has also variously been known locally as St Mary's, Christ Church and, simply, t'owd church.Although extensively refaced, restored and extended in the Victorian period, and then again following severe bomb damage in the 20th century, the main body of the Cathedral largely derives from the wardenship of James Stanley (warden 1485 - 1506), and is in the Perpendicular Gothic style. Stanley was also primarily responsible for commissioning the spectacular late-medieval wooden furnishings, including the pulpitum, the choir stalls, and the n...
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Chetham's Library
Manchester
~8.21 miles from Farnworth city center
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Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham (1580–1653), for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents", and a library for the use of scholars. The library has been in continuous use since 1653. It operates as an independent charity, open to readers and visitors free of charge.Chetham's Library holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851. They include especially rich collections of 16th- and 17th-century printed works, periodicals and journals, local history sources, broadsides and ephemera.This library was ...
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Manchester Opera House
Manchester
~8.21 miles from Farnworth city center
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The Opera House in Quay Street, Manchester, England is a 1,920 seater commercial touring theatre which plays host to touring musicals, ballet, concerts and a spectactular Christmas pantomime. It is the sister to the Palace Theatre which is a similar venue in nearby Oxford Street at its junction with Whitworth Street. It is a Grade II listed building.The theatre opened its doors on Boxing Day in 1912.The Opera House is particularly noted for hosting the 1958 European premiere of West Side Story and the British regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera with a production that opened in 1993 and ran through to 1995, an exceptional run for a regional production. The Opera House was also the venue for a spectacular stage show, Gorillazs Demon Days Live.Man...
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Museum of Science & Industry
Manchester
~8.22 miles from Farnworth city center
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The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI), located in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology, and industry and particularly the city's considerable contributions to these. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH — The European Route of Industrial Heritage. The museum is a non-departmental public body.There are extensive displays on the theme of transport (railway locomotives and rolling stock, aircraft, and space vehicles), power (water, electricity, steam and gas engines), Manchester's sewerage and sanitation, textiles, communications and computing. They also have steam train rides at the museum hauled by a replica of a Planet class Steam locomotive "Planet" built by Robert Stephenson. The railway brings the museum to life and is one...
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Exchange Square
Manchester
~8.25 miles from Farnworth city center
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Exchange Square is located in the English city of Manchester. The square was heavily redeveloped after the IRA bombing of the city centre in 1996. This reconstruction included the moving of two pubs to make room for the new Marks & Spencer store.Today the square is a major shopping area including a branch of Selfridges, the shopping centre The Triangle, a new entrance to the Manchester Arndale, including the world's largest Next store, The Printworks, and a number of pubs. The Triangle has a BBC Big Screen television attached to it facing an area of waterproof seating. To the south is New Cathedral Street.
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John Rylands Univ Library
Manchester UN
~8.26 miles from Farnworth city center
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The John Rylands University Library (The JRUL) is the University of Manchester's library and information service. It was formed in July 1972 from the merger of the library of the Victoria University of Manchester with the John Rylands Library[2][3]. On 1 October 2004 it joined the library of the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology on the merger of the two universities.[citation needed]The main library is on the Oxford Road Campus of the University in Chorlton on Medlock: the postal address is Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PP, UK, though the library entrance is at Burlington Street. The forms of the library's official name have varied slightly over the period of its existence: once as "John Rylands University Library of Manchester". The Library has been recently bee...
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Urbis
Manchester
~8.26 miles from Farnworth city center
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Urbis is an exhibition centre located in central Manchester, England. From 2002 to 2010, the centre hosted changing exhibits on popular culture topics including urban living, art, music, fashion, photography and videogames alongside talks, gigs and special events. Urbis is currently closed while the interior space is adapted to permanently host the relocated National Football Museum.
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Castlefield Roman Fort
Manchester
~8.26 miles from Farnworth city center
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Castlefield is an inner city area of Manchester, in North West England. It is historically notable for the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium (both forms are found) which later gave its name to Manchester. It is also the location of the world's first railway warehouse, and Liverpool Road railway station, the oldest surviving railway station in the world,[1] both of which are now part of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.After suffering years of urban decay, Castlefield was designated as a conservation area in 1980 and the United Kingdom's first designated Urban Heritage Park in 1982.[2][3] This was motivated by the fact that the area is centred on the confluence of the Bridgewater Canal, Ashton Canal and Rochdale Canal as well as a network of railways and, consequentl...
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Royal Exchange Theatre
Manchester UN
~8.26 miles from Farnworth city center
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The building remained empty until 1973 when it was used to temporarily house a theatre company. The Royal Exchange Theatre was founded in 1976 by a group of artistic directors — Michael Elliott, Caspar Wrede, Richard Negri, James Maxwell and Braham Murray — a group whose origins lay in the 59 and later 69 Theatre Companies whose work had had such an impact first in London and then Manchester. In 1979, the artistic directorship was augmented by the appointment of Gregory Hersov. Of the original group, Hersov and Braham Murray are still members.The theatre features a seven-sided steel and glass module that squats within the Great Hall of the building. It is a pure theatre in the round in which the stage area is surrounded on all sides, and above, by seating.[2]The theatre's unique design...
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Manchester Wheel
Manchester
~8.27 miles from Farnworth city center
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Good to go on once, but once you’ve seen it you’ve seen it, & you can get good views from Urbis just round the corner for free!
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St Ann's Church
Manchester
~8.29 miles from Farnworth city center
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St. Ann's Church, Manchester, was consecrated in 1712. Although named after St. Anne, it also pays tribute to the patron of the church, Lady Ann Bland. St. Ann's Church is a Grade I listed building.At the beginning of the 18th century, Manchester was a small rural town little more than a village, with many fields and timber framed houses A large cornfield named Acres Field, which is now St. Ann's Square, became the site for St. Ann's Church. The church was an impressive building and although it stood between the market and the collegiate church, both towers could be seen from all directions. It is a neo-classical building, originally constructed from locally quarried, red Collyhurst sandstone although, due to its soft nature, much of the original stone has since been replaced with sand...
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St Mary's The Hidden Gem
Manchester
~8.30 miles from Farnworth city center
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The Hidden Gem, or formally, St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church is located on Mulberry Street in Manchester, England. It was first dedicated at the site in 1794 with devotion to St Mary, Our Lady of the Assumption. In 1835, the roof collapsed, was restored and now The Hidden Gem remains the oldest Catholic Church in Manchester. (The second in the City Centre was St Augustine's in Granby Row, afterwards moved to Chorlton on Medlock.)
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City Centre Manchester
Manchester
~8.30 miles from Farnworth city center
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Abraham Lincoln Statue
Urmston
~8.30 miles from Farnworth city center
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Created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, it's a full-size replica of his acclaimed original in Chicago's Lincoln Park.
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