North West England spreads over an area of 14,165 sq km and has a population of more than 6 million.
North West England is one of the nine regions of England. It is bounded by the Scotland Border in the north, the Welsh Mountains and the West Midlands in the south, the Irish Sea in the west and the Pennines mountain ranges in the east. The northern part of the region is mostly rural, while urban cities dominate the south. The highest point is Cumbria’s Scafell Pike, which is England’s highest peak at nearly 1,000 m.
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| Manchester Travel Guide |
Manchester is located in the north-western part of England. This metropolis of approximately 441,000 inhabitants lies in a basin surrounded by hills and watered by three rivers.
Manchester has a pretty humid climate ... |
| Carlisle Travel Guide |
Carlisle, whose origins date back to the Celts, the first people who established in the area, not far from the notorious Wall, was a roman settlement!
Hadrian’s Wall was, in fact, used by the Romans to defend that part of the Empire.
It has been what it still... |
| Hazel Grove Travel Guide |
Hazel Grove, a village in Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in England, is close to the Peak District national park. Historically, the village was a part of Cheshire and until 1836, it was known as the Bullock Smithy. However, this name was not quite ... |
| Pendlebury Travel Guide |
Pendlebury is actually formed from 2 Celtic word, “pen” which means hill and “burh” which means settlement. Pendlebury is a town which is situated within the metropolitan borough in the City of Salford in Grater Manchester in England. It lies ... |
| St Helens Travel Guide |
St Helens can be described as a huge town located in Merseyside, i.e. North West, UK England. St Helens is the biggest settlement within ‘Metropolitan Borough of St Helens’.
If a bit of history is traced, one would get to kno... |