Northern Quarter
The Northern Quarter is an area of Manchester city centre, England, between Piccadilly station, Victoria station and Ancoats, centred on Oldham Street, just off Piccadilly Gardens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: area in Manchester, England
- Also known as: “N4”, “Northern Quarter, Manchester”, and “NQ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Greater Manchester Police Museum and Manchester Arena.
Greater Manchester Police Museum
Museum
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Greater Manchester Police Museum is a former police station converted into a museum and archives detailing the history of policing in Greater Manchester, England.
Manchester Arena
Stadium
Photo: Rob Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria station in air rights space.
Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Hyde, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ancoats and Piccadilly-East Centre.
Ancoats
Neighborhood
Ancoats is an area of Manchester, England, next to the Northern Quarter, the northern part of Manchester city centre. Historically in Lancashire, Ancoats became a cradle of the Industrial Revolution and has been called "the world's first industrial suburb".
Piccadilly-East Centre
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piccadilly-East Centre is the area in Manchester that covers Chinatown, the Gay Village, and Piccadilly Gardens. It is bounded by the A57, Oxford Road, and the A62.
Victoria-Shopping District
Photo: Nicholasjf21, CC BY-SA 3.0.
This covers the area in central Manchester 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.
Northern Quarter
- Category: locality
- Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.48326° or 53° 28′ 60″ northLongitude
-2.23313° or 2° 13′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C5VFQM8+8POpenStreetMap ID
way 602191415OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q7058890
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Satellite Map
Discover Northern Quarter from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Northern Quarter” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nothern Quarter (Manchester)”
- Basque: “Nothern Quarter”
- Chinese: “北角”
- Irish: “Northern Quarter, Manchain”
- Irish: “Northern Quarter”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Northern Quarter and New Cross.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gym & Juice and NQ Dance Studio.
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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 “Northern Quarter”. Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.