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The Frenchy!
Ancoats, Manchester, England
Ancoats, Manchester, England

The Frenchy!

Length5.3 mi
Elev. Gain265.7 ft
Est. Steps12000
Created by Willy

The Frenchy! Introduction

The Frenchy! is a 5.3 mile (12,000-step) route located near Ancoats, Manchester, England. This route has an elevation gain of about 265.7 ft and is rated as medium. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.

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Store Street Aqueduct

Water
The Store Street Aqueduct in central Manchester, England, was built in 1798 by Benjamin Outram on the Ashton Canal. A Grade II* listed building it is built on a skew of 45° across Store Street, and is believed to be the first major aqueduct of its kind in Great Britain and the oldest still in use today.

Ancoats Hospital

Place
Ancoats Hospital was the commonly used name for the large inner-city hospital, located in Ancoats, to the north of the city centre of Manchester, England. Its official name was Ancoats Hospital and Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary from 1875, when it replaced the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary that had existed since 1828.

Albion Mill, Ancoats

Place
Albion Mill is a former industrial building in Manchester, United Kingdom. It occupies the site of a former cotton mill and ironworks.John Hetherington & Sons made textile machinery in Ancoats. The company was founded in 1830 and as it expanded acquired the site of J. and J. L. Gray's Ancoats Mill, and other works on Pollard Street where around 1856 it established the Vulcan Works.

Ancoats and Clayton

Place
Ancoats and Clayton was an electoral district or ward in the north of the City of Manchester in North West England. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 16,141. It includes the Ancoats and Clayton districts and part of the Northern Quarter. Under boundary changes by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) the ward was abolished and replaced with the new electoral wards Ancoats and Beswick, Clayton and Openshaw, and Piccadilly from May 2018.

Sportcity

Place
Sportcity in Manchester was used to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It is in east Manchester, a mile from Manchester city centre, and was developed on former industrial land including the site of Bradford Colliery.Sportcity's largest structure, the City of Manchester Stadium, was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Chips, Manchester

Place
Chips is a residential apartment building, alongside the Ashton Canal, in New Islington, Manchester, England. Historically part of Ancoats, the building is part of an urban renewal project, New islington Millenium Village in east Manchester which has been led by Urban Splash.Chips is a nine-storey building and was designed by the architect Will Alsop, founder of Alsop Architects.

Cheshire Ring

Place
The Cheshire Ring is a canal cruising circuit or canal ring, which includes sections of six canals in and around Cheshire and Greater Manchester in North West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal.Because it takes boats approximately one week to complete the circuit, it is suited to narrowboat holidays that start at and return to the same location.

Islington Branch Canal

Place
The Islington Branch Canal was a short canal branch at Ancoats in north-west England, which joined the main line of the Ashton Canal between locks 1 and 2.

Brunswick Mill, Ancoats

Place
Brunswick Mill, Ancoats is a former cotton spinning mill on Bradford Road in Ancoats, Manchester, England. The mill was built around 1840, part of a group of mills built along the Ashton Canal, and at that time it was one of the country's largest mills. It was built round a quadrangle, a seven-storey block facing the canal.

Etihad Campus tram stop

Place
Etihad Campus is a tram stop on the East Manchester Line (EML) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. The stop is located adjacent to the City of Manchester Stadium (also known as the Etihad Stadium). The stop has a staggered platform layout, and has wide platforms in order to cope with large crowds which use the stop on match days or other events at the stadium.
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026

Route Details

Length

5.3 mi

Elev. Gain

265.7 ft

Est. Steps

12000
Created by
Willy
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