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Strangeways

Strangeways is an area of inner north , England, around just north of the .
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: area of Manchester, England
  • Also known as: “Strangeways, Manchester”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Manchester Arena and HM Prison Manchester.

Stadium
Photo: Rob Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an indoor arena in , England, immediately north of the and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space.

Prison
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Category A and B men's prison in , England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. It is still commonly referred to as Strangeways, which was its former official name derived from the area in which it is located, until it was rebuilt following a major riot in 1990.

Railway station
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
in , England, is a combined main line railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the on Hunts Bank, close to , it adjoins which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Green Quarter and NOMA.

Neighborhood
The is an area of , England, just north of the between , Strangeways and the . From the mid-nineteenth century, the area, then known as Red Bank, was a slum housing impoverished Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, but is now home to digital start-ups and e-commerce businesses, new apartments, microbreweries, gin distilleries and restaurants.

Neighborhood
Photo: The Co-operative, CC BY 2.0.
is an £800 million, 20-acre mixed-use redevelopment scheme in . It is the largest development project in ahead of developments such as and Atlantic Gateway.

Photo: Nicholasjf21, CC BY-SA 3.0.
This covers the area in central north of Piccadilly Gardens and east of Bridge St and Princess St, served by Victoria railway station. It covers the locales of the Millennium Quarter and St.

Strangeways

Latitude
53.49241° or 53° 29′ 33″ north
Longitude
-2.24433° or 2° 14′ 40″ west
Elevation
135 feet (41 metres)
Open location code
9C5VFQR4+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2677235767
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
9884107
Wiki­data ID
Q37733129
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Satellite Map

Discover Strangeways from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Dutch—“Strangeways” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Strangeways (Manchester)”
  • Basque: “Strangeways”
  • Dutch: “Strangeways”

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Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Strangeways”. Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.