Portal:North West England

North West England
North West England
Region of England
	Coordinates: 54°01′00″N 2°38′00″W / 54.0167°N 2.6333°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

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North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. (Full article...)

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The Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, then the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999) is an observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. It is located near Goostrey and Holmes Chapel in Macclesfield, Cheshire in the north–west of England.

The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope, which is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There are three other active telescopes located at the observatory; the Mark II, as well as 42 ft and 7 m diameter radio telescopes. Jodrell Bank Observatory is also the base of the Multi–Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN), a National Facility run by the University of Manchester on behalf of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

The observatory was established in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell, who wanted to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of meteors, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age.

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Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985 in Liverpool) is an English footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team. He is seen as one of the most exciting prospects of the modern game, his transfer fee from Everton still stands as the highest ever paid for a teenager. He normally played as a second striker to Ruud van Nistelrooy for his club team before van Nistelrooy's move to Real Madrid, although during 2005-06, he showed his versatility as a player by shifting to the midfield and playing on both flanks. He wore the number 8 shirt for Manchester United from 2004 until June 2007, when his shirt number was changed to number 10. He wears the number 9 shirt for England. Rooney was brought up in Croxteth, Liverpool, where he attended the De Le Salle School from 1997 until 2002. He has two younger brothers who both later attended the school. After excelling for Liverpool Schoolboys and The Dynamo Brownwings, Rooney was signed by Everton shortly before his 11th birthday. Rooney gained national prominence on 19 October 2002 when he became the youngest goal scorer in the history of the Premier League at 16 years and 360 days while playing for Everton (though this record has since been surpassed twice by James Milner and current record holder James Vaughan). His goal against then-champions Arsenal was a last-minute winner and brought to an end the London side's 30-match unbeaten run. At the end of 2002 he won the BBC Sports Young Personality of the Year.

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The following are images from various North West England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1ITV Granada former studios in Castlefield, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 2Ineos ChlorVinyls at Runcorn in 2006; the UK chemicals industry is worth £57bn, with 180,000 people in around 3,000 companies (from North West England)
Image 3A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 4Former head office of the Girobank in Bootle; it closed in 2003; it was taken over by Alliance & Leicester in 1990; it was established in Bootle in the late 1960s with help from Hugh Baird; it was the first financial institution in Europe to be fully computerised from the start (from North West England)
Image 5Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 6Kelloggs in Manchester, looking north along the A5181 next to GMFRS's Stretford Area Command HQ; the site is the largest producer of cereals in Europe (from North West England)
Image 7Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 8Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 9Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 10English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 11Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 12Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 13Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 14Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 15Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 161939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 17Old meets new at the Stockport Viaduct; designed by George W. Buck, it is the largest free-standing brick structure in the UK, built in 1840 when it was the largest viaduct in the world; it features in many L. S. Lowry paintings. (from North West England)
Image 18JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 19Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 20Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 21Vauxhall's plant in Ellesmere Port exports 88% of its cars, although many of the components are imported, and has made over 5 million since 1962, also making the Vectra from 1995 to 2008; it makes 686 a day (two a minute, 100,000 a year) and the latest model was designed by Mark Adams and Malcolm Ward. Three million Astras have been sold in the UK since 1979, and featured on the Top Gear test track until 2015; the production is split with the Opel Manufacturing Poland site at Gliwice in southern Poland; the Corsa is made at Opel Zaragoza in north-east Spain, with 3-door versions at Opel Eisenach; the Insignia is made at Opel Rüsselsheim (from North West England)
Image 22Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 23The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 24General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 25Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 26Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 27The Jodrell Bank Lovell 76-m radio telescope in Lower Withington, built in August 1957, is the world's third largest steerable telescope, and was the largest until 1971. It was designed by Sheffield's Sir Charles Husband and built of steel from Scunthorpe (from North West England)
Image 28Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 29Cereal Partners UK (Nestlé) make Cheerios and Golden Nuggets on the A41 opposite Port Sunlight at Bromborough, also the base of CSM UK, the baking ingredients company based at a former Unilever Stork margarine site. (from North West England)
Image 30Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 31A Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 (HS 801), built at Woodford (former Avro) and designed in Manchester in the mid-1960s, with XV148 (former Comet 4C) making its first flight on 23 May 1967, flying from Chester (Broughton, which had built many de Havilland fighter jet aircraft) to Woodford; 49 Nimrods were made for the RAF, entering service with 201 Sqn on 6 November 1970, serving until March 2010 with 38 Sqn (from North West England)
Image 32Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 33Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 34Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 35Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 36The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 37Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 38Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 39The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 40MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 41Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 42Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 43Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 44Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 45JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 46Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 47Heinz, although based in Hayes in Middlesex, has the largest food processing complex in Europe at a 55-acre (22 ha) site at Kitt Green in Wigan, which produces 1.4 billion cans of food each year; it is accessed to the east of the Orrell Interchange of the M6 (A577); the 38-acre Heinz NDC is next door (from North West England)
Image 48Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 49Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 50Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 51Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 52Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 53Statue of John Lennon of The Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)

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