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Manchester Town Hall Manchester is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of over 589,000 in 2024, and with Salford and surrounding towns forms one of the nation's most populous conurbations. Its history began with the settlement near the Roman fort of Mamucium or Mancunium, established around AD 79. Throughout the Middle Ages, it remained a manorial township, but began to expand with a boom in textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution. Manchester attain...