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Winchester is calmer than Oxford, Cambridge or Bath, and that is its charm. You come for the cathedral, Great Hall, old streets, river walks and pub lunch, not for a frantic list of sights. It is a perfect one-day trip if you want history
Windsor is the easiest way to add royal England to a London trip without turning the day into a logistics project. The castle is the obvious reason to come, but the best Windsor day includes more than State Apartments and castle walls: walk
York is not the easiest day trip from London, but it is one of the best weekend trips by train. The city is compact, atmospheric and full of layers: Roman walls, Viking stories, medieval lanes, tea rooms, pubs, independent shops and the hug
Mamucium, also known as Mancunium, is a former Roman fort in the Castlefield area of Manchester in North West England. The castrum, which was founded AD 79 within the province of Roman Britain, was garrisoned by a cohort of Roman auxiliarie
Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, with an estimated population of in . It covers km2 and includes the towns of Altrincham, Stretford, Urmston, Partington and Sale. The borough was formed in 1974 as a merger
Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's paris
Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992. The university has 44,000 students and over 5,100 members of staff. It
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th cen
Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will o
The University of Manchester Library is the library system and information service of the University of Manchester. The main library is on the Oxford Road campus of the university, with its entrance on Burlington Street. There are also ten
The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum in Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players an
The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football. It is based in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre, and preserves, conserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia. The museum was origina