Manchester

ALBERTSQUARE
ATOMSPLITTING
BEETHAMTOWER
CHESHIREPLAIN
CHRISTMASBLITZ
CISTOWER
CITYTOWER
COMPUTERS
COTTONOPOLIS
DEANSGATE
EXCHANGESQUARE
GOTHICREVIVAL
INDUSTRIALISEDCITY
KERSALMOOR
MAJORMILLTOWN
MAMUCIUM
MANCUNIAN
MANORIALTOWNSHIP
METROPOLITANBOROUGH
PETERLOOMASSACRE
RIVERINWELL
RIVERMEDLOCK
SANDSTONEBLUFF
SHIPCANAL
TEXTILEFACTORIES
TEXTILEMANUFACTURE
UNIVERSITIES
WESTPENNINES

Key points of interest in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England. Manchester derived its name from Mamucium, the Roman name for the 1st century-settlement and wooden fort that was built by the Roman army on a plateau about a mile south of the present cathedral around 80 AD (Lambert, [s.d.]). Mamucium itself is a Latinised form of the Celtic meaning ‘breast-shaped hill’, which the name was probably assigned due to the plateau resembling a breast (“History of Manchester”, [s.d.]). QUOTATION According to Chris Lethbridge, TV producer and director, in "Change and Contradiction" (Diverse City, 1994), "[b]y no stretch of the imagination is Manchester a picturesque city. It is however, emphatically if unconventionally beautiful. In common with all things beautiful...It is fundamentally flawed. It has a compulsion to preen and show off. It is narcissistic, contrary and wayward, and yet you cannot help but love it. It is both admirable and maddening." SOURCES Lambert, Tim. [s.d.]. A brief history of Manchester, England. In A World History Encyclopedia. Available: http://www.localhistories.org/manchester.html [2012, June 29]. History of Manchester. Wikipedia. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester [2014, March 14]. Enjoy this puzzle? If so, then maybe you'd like to check out my book of word search puzzles that is now available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Towns-Villages-Situated-Along-TransPennine/dp/1530873045/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480482199&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=louis+henderson+word+search.

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ALBERTSQUARE  1817w
ATOMSPLITTING  1817n
BEETHAMTOWER  22s
CHESHIREPLAIN  416n
CHRISTMASBLITZ  51s
CISTOWER  64e
CITYTOWER  1614n
COMPUTERS  153sw
COTTONOPOLIS  153s
DEANSGATE  1615w
EXCHANGESQUARE  319e
GOTHICREVIVAL  193s
INDUSTRIALISEDCITY  191w
KERSALMOOR  1713n
MAJORMILLTOWN  2019n
MAMUCIUM  57e
MANCUNIAN  1616w
MANORIALTOWNSHIP  220e
METROPOLITANBOROUGH  1111ne
PETERLOOMASSACRE  173sw
RIVERINWELL  147sw
RIVERMEDLOCK  53e
SANDSTONEBLUFF  1918nw
SHIPCANAL  614n
TEXTILEFACTORIES  418e
TEXTILEMANUFACTURE  31s
UNIVERSITIES  62e
WESTPENNINES  119n