Portal:North West England

North West England
North West England
Region of England
	Coordinates: 54°01′00″N 2°38′00″W / 54.0167°N 2.6333°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

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North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. (Full article...)

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Withington is a village in the City of Manchester, in North West England. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) immediately south of Manchester City Centre, about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) south of Fallowfield, 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north-east of Didsbury, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near the centre-to-south edges of the Greater Manchester conurbation; it is in the Manchester Withington parliamentary constituency. Withington is a dormitory village consisting of a resident population slightly over 14,000 people.

In the early 13th century, Withington occupied a feudal estate that included the townships of Withington, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Moss Side, Rusholme, Burnage, Denton and Haughton, ruled by the Hathersage, Longford and Tatton families, and within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.

Withington was largely rural until the mid-nineteenth century, in which it experienced rapid socioeconomic development and urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution, and Manchester's growing level of industrialisation. Introduced into the inner boundaries of Manchester in 1904, Withington was integrated into the city forty-five years after it gained city status.

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Shaun Ryder (born 23 August 1962 in Little Hulton, near Salford) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex-postman who became famous in the "Madchester" era band Happy Mondays.

His lyrics in the band Happy Mondays, dismissed by some as drug-induced gibberish, also received critical praise for their wit and musical fusion with the sound of the band. Ryder's struggle with drugs eventually led to the breakup of the Mondays in 1992. The film 24 Hour Party People featured the (semi-fictional) story of Shaun Ryder's youth and the life of Happy Mondays whilst signed with Factory Records in the late eighties and early nineties.

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The following are images from various North West England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1A Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 (HS 801), built at Woodford (former Avro) and designed in Manchester in the mid-1960s, with XV148 (former Comet 4C) making its first flight on 23 May 1967, flying from Chester (Broughton, which had built many de Havilland fighter jet aircraft) to Woodford; 49 Nimrods were made for the RAF, entering service with 201 Sqn on 6 November 1970, serving until March 2010 with 38 Sqn (from North West England)
Image 2A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 3Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 4Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 5Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 6The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 7Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 8Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 9Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 10Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 11MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 12Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 13Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 14JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 15JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 16Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 17Vauxhall's plant in Ellesmere Port exports 88% of its cars, although many of the components are imported, and has made over 5 million since 1962, also making the Vectra from 1995 to 2008; it makes 686 a day (two a minute, 100,000 a year) and the latest model was designed by Mark Adams and Malcolm Ward. Three million Astras have been sold in the UK since 1979, and featured on the Top Gear test track until 2015; the production is split with the Opel Manufacturing Poland site at Gliwice in southern Poland; the Corsa is made at Opel Zaragoza in north-east Spain, with 3-door versions at Opel Eisenach; the Insignia is made at Opel Rüsselsheim (from North West England)
Image 18The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 19Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 20Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 21Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 22Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 23Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 24Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 25Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 26The Jodrell Bank Lovell 76-m radio telescope in Lower Withington, built in August 1957, is the world's third largest steerable telescope, and was the largest until 1971. It was designed by Sheffield's Sir Charles Husband and built of steel from Scunthorpe (from North West England)
Image 27Heinz, although based in Hayes in Middlesex, has the largest food processing complex in Europe at a 55-acre (22 ha) site at Kitt Green in Wigan, which produces 1.4 billion cans of food each year; it is accessed to the east of the Orrell Interchange of the M6 (A577); the 38-acre Heinz NDC is next door (from North West England)
Image 28Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 29Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 30Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 31English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 32The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 33Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 34Cereal Partners UK (Nestlé) make Cheerios and Golden Nuggets on the A41 opposite Port Sunlight at Bromborough, also the base of CSM UK, the baking ingredients company based at a former Unilever Stork margarine site. (from North West England)
Image 35Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 36Former head office of the Girobank in Bootle; it closed in 2003; it was taken over by Alliance & Leicester in 1990; it was established in Bootle in the late 1960s with help from Hugh Baird; it was the first financial institution in Europe to be fully computerised from the start (from North West England)
Image 37Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 38Kelloggs in Manchester, looking north along the A5181 next to GMFRS's Stretford Area Command HQ; the site is the largest producer of cereals in Europe (from North West England)
Image 39Old meets new at the Stockport Viaduct; designed by George W. Buck, it is the largest free-standing brick structure in the UK, built in 1840 when it was the largest viaduct in the world; it features in many L. S. Lowry paintings. (from North West England)
Image 40Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 41Ineos ChlorVinyls at Runcorn in 2006; the UK chemicals industry is worth £57bn, with 180,000 people in around 3,000 companies (from North West England)
Image 42Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 43Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 44Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 45Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 46Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 47Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 48Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 49Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 50General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 511939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 52ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 53Lancaster city centre (from North West England)

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The Parish Church of St. Nicholas and the Atlantic Tower hotel near Pier Head. The Atlantic Tower was designed to resemble the prow of a ship and to reflect Liverpool's maritime history.

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