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Schools in Manchester (Greater)
Formed in 974 from parts of Lancashire and Cheshire but, as the
name obviously suggests, based around the city of Manchester.
Apart from Manchester the area covers the old Lancashire towns
of Oldham, Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale, the city of Salford and the
former Cheshire town of Stockport.
Greater Manchester covers 5 square miles.
In recent years the city has become synonymous with the football
clubs of Manchester City and Manchester United.
The origins of the area owe a lot to the opening of the Bridgewater
canal in the 8's which brought the regional industries of coal and
in particular cotton a ready outlet to markets up and down the country
and, with the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal to markets worldwide.
Famous sons and daughters from the region include the singer Gracie
Fields (from Rochdale), Emmeline Pankhurst (the leader of the Suffragette
movement in the early part of the th Century) and Anthony Burgess
(less glamourously a member of a Soviet spy ring in the 1905's and
60's).
In common with it's traditions the area is highly industrialised
although the times 'when cotton was King' are now long gone.
Results for Manchester: from Independentschools.com
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