Cheap hotels in Manchester
Hotels in Manchester are oftwen required by tourists who need a vacation in the city. Some need a vacation in the city as they want to see the architecture, the landscapes, the culture, the historic areas of the city and the entertainment or sports venues of the city. Some tourists may prefer a luxury hotel, or a cheap hotel. Some tourists may want a good parking or a large or small hotel in the city.
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted city status in 1853. Historically, most of the city was a part of Lancashire, with areas south of the River Mersey being in Cheshire. Manchester was the world's first industrialised city and played a central role during the Industrial Revolution. It was the dominant international centre of textile manufacture and cotton spinning. During the 19th century it acquired the nickname Cottonopolis, suggesting it was a metropolis of cotton mills.
The Brigantes were the major Celtic tribe of what is now Northern England who had a stronghold in the locality at a sandstone outcrop on which Manchester Cathedral now stands, opposite the banks of the River Irwell. Their territory extended across the fertile lowland of what is now Salford and Stretford. Following the Roman conquest of Britain in the 1st century, General Agricola ordered the construction of a Roman fort in the year 79 named Mamucium to ensure Roman interests with Deva Victrix (Chester) and Eboracum (York) were protected from the Brigantes. Central Manchester has been permanently settled since this time. A stabilised fragment of foundations of the final version of the Roman fort is visible in Castlefield.
Much of Manchester's history is concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and north Cheshire, and Manchester was for a time the most productive centre of cotton processing, and later the world's largest marketplace for cotton goods. Manchester was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era.
At
160 miles northwest of London, Manchester lies in a bowl-shaped land area bordered
to the north and east by the Pennine hills, a mountain chain that runs the length
of Northern England and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. The city centre is
on the east bank of the River Irwell, near its confluences with the Rivers Medlock
and Irk, and is relatively low-lying, being between 115 to 138 feet above sea
level. The River Mersey flows through the south of Manchester. Much of the inner
city, especially in the south, is flat, offering extensive views from many highrise
buildings in the city of the foothills and moors of the Pennines, which can often
be capped with snow in the winter months. Manchester's geographic features were
highly influential in its early development as the world's first industrial city.
These features are its climate, its proximity to a seaport at Liverpool, the availability
of water power from its rivers, and its nearby coal reserves.
The name Manchester, though officially applied only to the metropolitan district of Greater Manchester, has been applied to other, wider divisions of land, particularly across much of the Greater Manchester county and urban area. The "Manchester City Zone", "Manchester post town" and the "Manchester Congestion Charge" are all examples of this. The economic geography of the Manchester City Region is used to define housing markets, business linkages, travel to work patterns, administrative areas etc. As defined by The Northern Way economic development agency the City Region territory encompasses most of the natural economy’s Travel to Work Area and includes the cities of Manchester and Salford, plus the adjoining metropolitan boroughs of Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Wigan, together with High Peak (which lies outside the North West England region), Congleton, Macclesfield, Vale Royal and Warrington.
Manchester has a wide variety of buildings mainly from Victorian architecture through to modern. Much of the architecture in the city harks back to its former days as a global centre for the cotton trade. Many warehouses have now been converted for other uses but the external appearance remains mostly unchanged so the city keeps much of its original character.
Other structures of interest in Manchester include or have included ;
The Bridgewater Hall, home of the Hallé Orchestra, The Beetham Tower, Manchester,
the tallest building in Manchester, The CIS Tower, The tallest vertical array
of solar cells and the former tallest building in Manchester, The City of Manchester
Stadium, The Corn Exchange (now the Triangle shopping centre), Manchester Central,
John Rylands Library, Deansgate, London Road Fire Station, The Lowry Hotel, Manchester's
first 5 star hotel, Manchester Art Gallery Museum (free), Manchester Central Library,
St Peter’s Square, by E. Vincent Harris, Manchester Jewish Museum occupies
a notable, 1874 Moorish Revival synagogue building, Manchester Town Hall by Alfred
Waterhouse, extended by E. Vincent Harris, Midland Bank building (now HSBC Bank
plc), King Street by Sir Edwin Lutyens, The Midland Hotel, Old Trafford, the home
of Manchester United FC, Manchester Arndale, the UK's largest inner-city shopping
centre, Piccadilly Gardens by Tadao Ando, Palace Hotel, The Portico Library, The
Royal Exchange, South Manchester Synagogue, Strangeways Prison, Sunlight House,
Trinity Bridge over River Irwell by Santiago Calatrava, Victoria station, The
Victoria Baths, Watts Warehouse (now the Britannia Hotel), Urbis Museum
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