Portal:North West England

North West England
North West England
Region of England
	Interactive map of North West 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. It is one of the three regions, alongside North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber, that make up Northern England. (Full article...)

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Withington is a village in the City of Manchester, in North West England. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) immediately south of Manchester City Centre, about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) south of Fallowfield, 0.5 miles (0.8 km) north-east of Didsbury, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near the centre-to-south edges of the Greater Manchester conurbation; it is in the Manchester Withington parliamentary constituency. Withington is a dormitory village consisting of a resident population slightly over 14,000 people.

In the early 13th century, Withington occupied a feudal estate that included the townships of Withington, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Moss Side, Rusholme, Burnage, Denton and Haughton, ruled by the Hathersage, Longford and Tatton families, and within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.

Withington was largely rural until the mid-nineteenth century, in which it experienced rapid socioeconomic development and urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution, and Manchester's growing level of industrialisation. Introduced into the inner boundaries of Manchester in 1904, Withington was integrated into the city forty-five years after it gained city status.

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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, with his storytelling optimism and gift for melody, complemented each other. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance".

Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and irreverent wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), in books such as In His Own Write, and in press conferences and interviews. He channelled his fame and penchant for controversy into his work as a peace activist, artist, and author.

He had two sons, Julian, with his first wife Cynthia, and Sean, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City on 8 December 1980 as he and Ono returned home from a recording session. In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Lennon number 38 on their list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time" and ranked The Beatles at number 1.

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

Image 1Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 2The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 3Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 4A 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 5A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 6Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 7Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 8JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 9Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 10Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 11Kelloggs 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 12Heinz, 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 13Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 14MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 15Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 16Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 17Former 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 18The 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 19Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 20Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 21Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 22English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 23Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 24JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 25Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 26Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 27Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 28Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 29Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 30Cereal 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 31Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 32Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 33Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 34Ineos 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 35Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 36Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 37Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 38Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 39Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 40Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 41Vauxhall'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 42The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 43The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 44Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 45Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 46Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 47Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 48Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 49General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 50Old 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 51Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 521939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)

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