At ( 53. 704 °, − 2. 199 °), north-northeast of Manchester city centre and north-northwest of central London, Bacup stands on the western slopes of the South Pennines, amongst the upper-Irwell Valley.

The local geology of the Irwell Valley, which included steep sided valleys with fast flowing rivers subject to rapid flooding and dry seasons, confined local river transport to the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, west of Manchester.

It is located on the very edge of the Peak District, in the Goyt Valley, very close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills, and south of Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley Line ( avoiding Derby ) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, before heading west along the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester Piccadilly.

Among the other diversions are loops that branch off to serve Manchester, one between Colwich Junction in the Trent Valley south of Stafford via Stoke-on-Trent, one north of Stafford also via Stoke-on-Trent, and one via Crewe and Wilmslow.

These lines, together with the Trent Valley Railway ( between Rugby and Stafford, avoiding Birmingham ), and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, ( Crewe-Manchester ), amalgamated operations in 1846 to form the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ).

The main spine of the WCML is quadruple track almost all of the way from London to ( where the line diverges into sections to Manchester, North Wales, Liverpool, and Scotland ) except for a section of triple track between Brinklow Junction ( north of ), Attleborough South Junction ( south of ) on the Trent Valley Line and between Colwich Junction and where it is a mixture of triple and double track ( through the tunnel under the Shugborough estate ).

Among the last of the major lines built by the Midland was a connection between Sheffield and Manchester, by means of a branch at Dore to Chinley, opened in 1894, involving the construction of the Totley and Cowburn Tunnels, now known as the Hope Valley Line.

The L & BR purchased the Trent Valley Railway in 1846 on behalf of the LNWR ; this fifty-mile line connected Rugby on the L & BR with Stafford on the Grand Junction Railway thus creating a more direct line from London to Liverpool and Manchester by avoiding the original route through Birmingham.

Connectivity would be preserved by the creation of the Ordsall Chord to the west of the city establishing the first regular heavy-rail link between Piccadilly and Victoria, making it possible for trains from the airport to travel via Piccadilly's platforms 13 and 14 and Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria to Leeds and via the Calder Valley line to Bradford.

The Conwy Valley Line runs to the North Wales coast at Llandudno Junction with links to Chester, Holyhead / Caergybi ( Welsh ), Manchester and the rest of the UK.

En route it called at Didcot Railway Centre,, the Severn Valley Railway, ( overnight stop ), Manchester, Bradford,, the National Railway Museum ( overnight stop ), Newcastle, Edinburgh, arriving at Perth on 11 July.

The entire length of the river is closely followed by the Hope Valley ( Manchester to Sheffield ) railway line.

When the Sheffield to Manchester ( Hope Valley ) line opened, the railway station to the south of Grindsbrook Booth was named " Edale ", and the name came to be used for the settlements in the parish, rather than the valley as a whole.

It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of the city of Preston, north-northwest of the city of Manchester.

Hope has a railway station on the Sheffield to Manchester ( Hope Valley ) line.

Nearly all the existing forces were under the 4, 000 limit, with only the Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside Police, Northumbria Police, Thames Valley Police, West Midlands Police and West Yorkshire Police over the limit-see Table of police forces in the United Kingdom for a full list.

Miss Page was in Manchester to perform a sold-out concert at the Palace Theatre to benefit Merrimack Valley Assistance Program.

Bamford is known as the Gateway to the Hope Valley from Manchester and the north-west as it provides the only road through to the Hope Valley from the A57 Glossop – Sheffield road over the Snake Pass.

Arriva Trains Wales operate services to West Wales, Holyhead, Crewe and Manchester, as well as the South Wales Valley Lines.

The Hope Valley Line is a railway line in England linking Sheffield with Manchester.

In the early 1980s, proposals were put forward to convert the Piccadilly-Belle Vue-Rose Hill / Marple section of the Hope Valley Line to light rail operation for the proposed Manchester Metrolink system.

* Bedford High School ( Leigh ), Greater Manchester, England

The girls were enrolled in Manchester Girls ' High School, where they felt confined by the large student population and strictly regimented schedule.

* Fairfield High School for Girls, Droylsden, Greater Manchester, England

He was of English, Polish, German and French descent and was educated at Manchester ’ s Central High School for Boys.

When he was five, his family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he attended Manchester Central High School.

* Manchester High School

North Manchester is home to Manchester College and Manchester Junior-Senior High School.

Glossop and the western area of High Peak fall within Greater Manchester's sphere of influence by way of some transport being provided by Transport for Greater Manchester.

The Maranacook Community School system includes Manchester Elementary School, Mount Vernon Elementary School, Readfield Elementary School, Wayne Elementary School, Maranacook Community Middle School and Maranacook Community High School.

Manchester Elementary School was originally built in 1932 as Manchester High School.

* Nick Davis, former NFL wide receiver, born in Manchester and played football for Manchester High School

* Cub Koda, lead singer of Brownsville Station, best known for the 1973 hit song " Smokin ' in the Boys Room ", which was later covered by Mötley Crüe, graduated from Manchester High School

The Parkway School District has one high school located within the Manchester city limits: Parkway South High School.

Other buses run to the nearby towns of Whaley Bridge, Chapel en le Frith, New Mills and Glossop, and the High Peak ' Transpeak ' service offers an hourly link southwards to Taddington, Matlock, Derby and Nottingham and northwards to Stockport and Manchester.

There is also a High Peak bus directly from Manchester Airport to Buxton.

* Manchester Memorial High School

High school education is provided through contract at Manchester Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Associated in a sense with the Manchester School through his mother's family, Trevelyan conveys in this biography something of its moral conviction and drive.

Max Gluckman, together with many of his colleagues at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute and students at Manchester University, collectively known as the Manchester School, took BSA in new directions through their introduction of explicitly Marxist-informed theory, their emphasis on conflicts and conflict resolution, and their attention to the ways in which individuals negotiate and make use of the social structural possibilities.

Category: People educated at Manchester Grammar School

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

He gave a series of lectures on unit operations at the Manchester Technical School ( University of Manchester today ) in 1887, considered to be one of the earliest such about chemical engineering.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

" However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle of the Manchester School and William Gladstone.

During his business career, Lynch served as Director of Admissions at Harvard Business School and President of The Lynch Group, a business consulting firm in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The building housed the pure mathematicians from the Victoria University of Manchester between moving out of the Mathematics Tower in 2004 and July 2007 when the School of Mathematics moved in to its new Alan Turing Building, where a lecture room is named in his honour.

Foster gained an internship at a local architect's office before submitting a portfolio and winning a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture.

After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster won a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning.

By this time the institution was called the Manchester Municipal School of Technology or fondly known as The Tech.

Category: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Category: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

The university has its roots in the Manchester Mechanics ’ Institution ( 1824 ) and the Manchester School of Design ( 1838 ).

The university is home to the Manchester School of Art, the Manchester School of Theatre and, in conjunction with the University of Manchester, the Manchester School of Architecture.