Manchester-Liverpool

Yet farther northwest of London than Birmingham, just above Wales and on the mouth of the Mersey is the seaport of Liverpool. East of it at an old Roman crossroads is Manchester. Liverpool and Manchester form the core of a metropolitan area with 4.2 million residents.¹ Six parts of the city of Liverpool constitute a World Heritage Site: The Pier Head, with its three famous buildings; the Albert Dock, the first all-fire-proof dock; the Stanley Dock Conservation Area; Duke Street Conservation Area/ Ropewalks; the Commercial Quarter/ Castle Street Conservation Area, including the Trials Hotel and the Town Hall; and the "Cultural Quarter"/ William Brown Street Conservation Area. The tallest building in Manchester is the Beetham Tower, a mixed use building that is 169 meters tall. The "B of the Bang" modern sculpture had to be dismantled because it's metal spikes were falling off.

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Albert Dock in Liverpool

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Footnotes

1. world-gazetteer.com, 2010 calculations, accessed 6/15/2011.
2. Estimate for 1900 in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 1900 Manchester was the second largest city in the British Isles and the ninth largest in the world. In 2000 Manchester-Liverpool was the second largest metropolitan area in the British Isles.