Manchester

 

Manchester is the name of a city in the north of England, located within the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester, and a part of the Greater Manchester Urban Area. There are several meanings for "Manchester", mainly named after the English city:

Places

In the Commonwealth of Nations

• Manchester, Jamaica
• Manchester (see Alyth/Bonnybrook/Manchester, Calgary), a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

In the United States

• Manchester, California (a village near Point Arena, California)
• Manchester, Connecticut
• Manchester, Georgia
• Manchester, Illinois
• Manchester, Iowa
• Manchester, Kansas
• Manchester, Kentucky
• Manchester, Maine
• Manchester, Maryland
• Manchester, Massachusetts
• Manchester, Michigan
• Manchester, Minnesota
• Manchester, Missouri
• Manchester, New Hampshire (the largest Manchester in the United States)
• Manchester, New Jersey
• Manchester, New York
• Manchester, Ohio
• Manchester, Oklahoma
• Manchester, Pennsylvania
• Manchester (Pittsburgh) a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Manchester, South Dakota
• Manchester, Tennessee
• Manchester, Texas (Houston area)
• Manchester, Vermont
• Manchester, Virginia (extinct independent city, now part of Richmond)
• Manchester, Washington
• Manchester, Green Lake County, Wisconsin
• Manchester, Jackson County, Wisconsin
• Manchester Township, Michigan
• Manchester Township, New Jersey
• Manchester Township, Pennsylvania
• Manchester Center, Vermont

In Bolivia

• Manchester, Bolivia

People

• The Duke of Manchester (previously Earl of Manchester), a title of the Peerage of the United Kingdom from 1626 to date
• William Manchester (1922–2004), American historian and biographer
• Melissa Manchester (b. 1951), American singer/songwriter

Ships and planes

• Avro Manchester, a twin-engine heavy bomber used by the RAF during World War II
• HMS Manchester, the name of three ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Manchester (CL-83), named after Manchester, New Hampshire

In Sport

• Manchester City F.C.
• Manchester United F.C.
• F.C. United of Manchester
• 2002 Commonwealth Games

Airports

• Manchester Airport, near Manchester, England
• Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, near Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Music

• Manchester (song), a song by the Beautiful South
• "Manchester, England," a song from Hair (musical)

Other

• "Manchester", the usual word for household linens in Australia and New Zealand
• Manchester code, a form of telecommunication
• Manchester Mark I, an early British computer (also another name for the Avro Manchester bomber)
• Manchester Ship Canal
• Manchester terrier, a breed of dog
• Manchester school of economics:
  • Manchester capitalism, a capitalist intellectual movement of the 19th century, pioneered by John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith, amongst others
  • The Manchester School (journal), an academic journal of economics
  • Manchester school (anthropology), a school of thought in anthropology
• "Manchester Part I" and "Manchester Part II", episodes of The West Wing
• Manchester score, referring to a system of assessing small cell lung cancer
• "Manchester", the name of a variant of the Athlon 64 X2 CPU

See also

• Manchester High School, a disambiguation page

Bibliography

• Roy Cookson A World of Manchesters: A guide to all the villages, towns and cities throughout the world named Manchester. Casthermen Books: ISBN 0-9542404-0-5.

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