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Ten boroughs. Nearly three million people. Hundreds of stories most of them have never heard. This is Greater Manchester the way a local would show you around.
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Not restaurants and hotels. The stories, the secrets, the things you'd never notice without someone pointing them out.
Salford, Eccles, Swinton, Worsley, Irlam
From the docks that powered an empire to the studios that power the BBC. Lowry painted it, Engels wrote about it, and Eccleston refused to hide its accent. Salford's always been Manchester's other half, and it's got the stories to prove it.
Explore Salford →City Centre, Ancoats, Didsbury, Chorlton, Moss Side
The one in the middle. Where Peterloo happened, where punk was born, where the atom was split. From the Curry Mile to the Cathedral, from Afflecks to the Arndale. The city that refuses to stand still.
Explore Manchester →Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Prestwich
Home to the world-famous Bury Market, the East Lancashire Railway, and more black pudding than anywhere on earth. The gateway between Manchester and the moors.
Explore Bury →Bolton, Horwich, Westhoughton, Farnworth, Kearsley
Samuel Crompton's spinning mule changed the world from a parlour in Hall i' th' Wood. Bolton gave us Fred Dibnah, Peter Kay, and the steepest cobbled street you'll ever drive up.
Explore Bolton →Rochdale, Middleton, Heywood, Littleborough, Milnrow
The birthplace of the cooperative movement. Twenty-eight weavers opened a shop on Toad Lane in 1844 and changed the way the world does business. Lisa Stansfield's from here too.
Explore Rochdale →Oldham, Shaw, Royton, Chadderton, Saddleworth
Once the cotton-spinning capital of the world. More spindles than any other town on earth. Now it's Saddleworth Moor, the Whit Friday brass band contests, and some of the best views in Greater Manchester.
Explore Oldham →Ashton, Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley, Denton
Stalybridge buffet bar is one of the oldest surviving railway platform bars in the country. The Tame Valley runs through it like a thread. Quieter than its neighbours, but full of surprises if you know where to look.
Explore Tameside →Stockport, Cheadle, Bramhall, Marple, Reddish
The viaduct. The hat museum. The air raid shelters carved into sandstone. Stockport sits at the meeting of the Goyt and the Tame, and it's been here since the Saxons. The Produce Hall market is worth the trip alone.
Explore Stockport →Stretford, Sale, Altrincham, Urmston, Partington
Old Trafford, the Trafford Centre, and the Manchester Ship Canal. But also the Bridgewater Canal, Dunham Massey deer park, and Altrincham Market, which helped reinvent what a market town could be.
Explore Trafford →Wigan, Leigh, Atherton, Standish, Hindley
George Orwell came here in 1936 and wrote The Road to Wigan Pier. The pier is still there. So is the spirit. Rugby league, meat pies, and an accent that's unmistakably its own.
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