[17] By 1963 the port of Manchester was the UK's third largest,[42] and employed over 3,000 men, but the canal was unable to handle the increasingly large container ships. Historically the population of Manchester began to increase rapidly during the Victorian era, estimated at 354,930 for Manchester and 110,833 for Salford in 1865, and peaking at 766,311 in 1931. A government statement in 2014 announced a 78million grant for a new "large-scale, ultra-flexible arts space" for the city. [185] Manchester was the meeting place of Engels and Karl Marx. The map then zooms to centre on Manchester and show neighbouring areas. This is higher than the overall increase for England Albert Square has monuments to Prince Albert, Bishop James Fraser, Oliver Heywood, William Gladstone and John Bright. [82] The green belt was first drawn up in 1961. On the canal's banks, just outside the borough, the world's first industrial estate was created at Trafford Park. [35], Manchester has a notable place in the history of Marxism and left-wing politics; being the subject of Friedrich Engels' work The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Engels spent much of his life in and around Manchester,[36] and when Karl Marx visited Manchester, they met at Chetham's Library. [136] The network consists of eight lines with 99 stops. An extensive canal network, including the Manchester Ship Canal, was built to carry freight from the Industrial Revolution onward; the canals are still maintained, though now largely repurposed for leisure use. [24] Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry. The combination of competition and improved efficiency halved the cost of coal and halved the transport cost of raw cotton. Results of the 2011 United Kingdom Census showed that the total population of Greater Manchester was 2,682,528. The two began writing The Communist Manifesto in Chetham's Library[186] founded in 1653 and claiming to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. [58] Between 1890 and 1933, more areas were added to the city, which had been administered by Lancashire County Council, including former villages such as Burnage, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Didsbury, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Longsight, and Withington. [215] Lancashire County Cricket Club also play in Trafford at Old Trafford Cricket Ground and regularly hosts international test matches. The map zooms out to show the percentage change in population size in all local authority areas in the North West. An American visitor taken to Manchester's blackspots saw "wretched, defrauded, oppressed, crushed human nature, lying and bleeding fragments".[39]. [89] The Manchester LUZ is the second largest within the United Kingdom, behind that of London. It includes a Hilton hotel, a restaurant and apartments. The economy grew relatively strongly between 2002 and 2012, when growth was 2.3 per cent above the national average. [142] Go North West operate a three-route zero-fare Manchester Metroshuttle, which carries 2.8million commuters a year around Manchester's business districts. [29] The industrial revolution brought about huge change in Manchester and was key to the increase in Manchester's population. Housing two theatre spaces, five cinemas and an art exhibition space, it replaced the Cornerhouse and The Library Theatre. A larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln by George Gray Barnard in the eponymous Lincoln Square (having stood for many years in Platt Fields) was presented to the city by Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio, to mark the part Lancashire played in the cotton famine and American Civil War of 18611865. [80], Historically the population of Manchester began to increase rapidly during the Victorian era, estimated at 354,930 for Manchester and 110,833 for Salford in 1865,[83] and peaking at 766,311 in 1931. [229][230], With the growth in regional television in the 1950s, Manchester became one of the BBC's three main centres in England. Its main pop music venue is Manchester Arena, voted "International Venue of the Year" in 2007. [65] Manchester has a relatively high humidity level, and this, along with abundant soft water, was one factor that led to advancement of the textile industry in the area. Established in 1515,[210] as a free grammar school next to what is now the cathedral, it moved in 1931 to Old Hall Lane in Fallowfield, south Manchester, to accommodate the growing student body. [201] Following a series of drug-related violent incidents, The Haienda closed in 1997. Trade, and feeding the growing population, required a large transport and distribution infrastructure: the canal system was extended, and Manchester became one end of the world's first intercity passenger railwaythe Liverpool and Manchester Railway. A reconstructed part of the Roman fort of Mamucium is open to the public in Castlefield. In 1889, the city became a county borough, as did many larger Lancashire towns, and therefore not governed by Lancashire County Council. Census. The urban center of the town is the Manchester census-designated place, with a population of 36,379 at the 2020 census. [222], Several local weekly free papers are distributed by the MEN group. Manchester Town Hall, in Albert Square, was built in the Gothic revival style and is seen as one of the most important Victorian buildings in England. In 2019, the Manchester Local Education Authority was ranked second to last out of Greater Manchester's ten LEAs and 140th out of 151 in the country LEAs based on the percentage of pupils attaining grades 4 or above in English and mathematics GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education) with 56.2 per cent compared with the national average of 64.9 per cent. The generally accepted etymology of this name is that it comes from Brittonic *mamm- ("breast", in reference to a "breast-like hill"). [6] It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. [212] Of the 63 secondary schools in the LEA, four had 80 per cent or more pupils achieving Grade 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs: Manchester High School for Girls, The King David High School, Manchester Islamic High School for Girls, and Kassim Darwish Grammar School for Boys.[213]. The city was mentioned as a market as early as 1282. At 53280N 2140W / 53.46667N 2.23333W / 53.46667; -2.23333, 160 miles (260km) northwest of London, Manchester lies in a bowl-shaped land area bordered to the north and east by the Pennines, an upland chain that runs the length of northern England, and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. Elsewhere in the city, the John Rylands Library holds an extensive collection of early printing. One of the earliest instructors and classical music pianists/conductors at the RNCM, shortly after its founding, was the Russian-born Arthur Friedheim, (18591932), who later had the music library at the famed Peabody Institute conservatory of music in Baltimore, Maryland, named after him. (COVID-19) pandemic affected people's choice of usual residence on Census Manchester's 2023 population is now estimated at, Manchester has grown by 18,202 in the last year, which represents a, These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom, it is the third most visited city in the country, The 2011 census found the racial and ethnic composition, the share of Christians in Manchester has fallen, There is also a Chinatown with the third-largest Chinese population in, White: 66.7% (59.3% White British, 2.4% White Irish, 0.1% Irish Traveller or Gypsy, 4.9% other white), Asian: 17.1% (8.5% Pakistani, 2.7% Chinese, 2.3% Indian, 1.3% Bangladeshi, 2.3% other Asian), Black: 8.6% (5.1% African, 1.6% other black). As of the 2000 census, the village population was 354. [196] The more than 500 licensed premises[197] in the city centre have a capacity to deal with more than 250,000 visitors,[198] with 110,000130,000 people visiting on a typical weekend night,[197] making Manchester the most popular city for events at 79 per thousand people. In Manchester, the population size has increased by 9.7%, from around 503,100 in 2011 to 552,000 in 2021. The population of England and Wales has increased by more than 3.5 million in the 10 years leading up to Census 2021. [182][183] Manchester in the 19th century featured in works highlighting the changes that industrialisation had brought. By attending status, there are 1,376 full-time and 73 part-time students with gender distribution of 684 male and 765 female students. Manchester United play home games at Old Trafford, the largest club ground in the United Kingdom although this is not located within the City of Manchester and is in the neighbouring metropolitan borough of Trafford. According to the 2011 census, of Greater Manchester's ten metropolitan 135149. The number of males living in Greater Manchester was 1,325,455 (49.41% of the total resident Manchester Arndale is the UK's largest city-centre shopping centre. [61] The River Mersey flows through the south of Manchester. Manchester was an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement.[37]. The Bridgewater Canal, Britain's first wholly artificial waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at Worsley to central Manchester. The Guardian newspaper was founded in the city in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian. 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