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The 23rd
Manchester Phonology Meeting |
Travel and maps
The conference venue is the Hulme Hall lecture suite at the University of Manchester. NB: 'Hulme' = [hju:m].
This page should contain all the information that you'll need in order to find Hulme Hall - you may want to print out this page (and maybe some of the maps that it links to) to bring with you.
If you have any queries, contact Patrick Honeybone (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk).
To help you plan your travel by air or rail, this page contains links to local airports and to rail information.
If you'd like to find out more about Manchester in general,
and about what there is do to in the city (apart from phonology...),
click here.
Hulme Hall is located just south of the city centre.
Its address is: Hulme Hall, Oxford Place, Victoria Park, Manchester,
M14
5RR.
The phone number for Hulme Hall's reception is #44 (0)161 275 0210.
Here
it is on google maps.
This city centre map is quite useful: it shows in detail how to reach the main campus of the University of Manchester on Oxford Road (marked in purple on the map), and Hulme Hall (which is also a students' hall of residence) is a little further towards the south of Manchester city centre, on Oxford Place.
Hulme Hall is c. 10-15 minutes' walk south of the main university campus, which is itself towards the south of the city centre. Simply head south along Oxford Road (ie, away from the city centre), until you reach a series of hospitals all on the left-hand side and Whitworth Art Gallery on the right. There are then a series of shops and businesses on the left-hand side (including the Ford Maddox Brown pub - the 'conference pub'), which you need to go past. Then turn left into Rusholme Place, leading to Oxford Place (the turning before Rusholme Place is into Hathersage Road) and continue for about 150 yards, past the turning into Oxney Road (on the right). Hulme Hall is then on your right. Please note that Oxford Road turns into Wilmslow Road about level with Rusholme Place, but where it cuts through the Manchester University campus it is still called Oxford Road.
You can easily catch a bus along Oxford Road from the city centre - there are hundreds, running every few minutes, but be careful as not all buses that go along Oxford Road go to near Hulme Hall. Good bets are the blue Magic Buses (number 142 or 143) and the white and purple First buses (e.g. number 41 or 42), which should cost one pound (check that the First bus display a 'Quids in' sign or it may cost more). The fare differs from bus company to bus company, though, so ask the driver how much it is when you get on. Stagecoach buses (numbers 42, 43, 44) should also get you there but will likely cost more (over 2 pounds). You should be ok if you ask the driver for 'the stop after the hospitals at the end of Oxford Road' and they should be able to give you change - the part of town that you're going to is 'Rusholme' and you could ask the driver if the bus goes to Rusholme, to make sure that it will take you where you need to go. You will need to stay on the bus all the way along Oxford Road to just past the two hospitals (which are on one campus, on the left hand side). If you take the bus, look out for the hospitals and get out at the first stop after them. You then need to take a left turn into Rusholme Place and follow the instructions above.
Registration for the conference will be on the ground floor of
the main
Hulme Hall building, in the Porters' Lodge. Simply continue straight
ahead
after walking into the Hulme Hall complex, past parked cars on your
left,
until you come to a building with glass doors (also on your left). Go
through
the glass doors and turn right to find yourself in the Porters' Lodge.
Air, rail and bus travel to Manchester
Travel
by air
If you're flying into Britain for the conference, it's definitely worth
trying to get a ticket to Manchester Airport (or possibly to Liverpool
Airport,
as Liverpool is close to Manchester and there are frequent train
services
connecting the two cities, but if possible, go to Manchester Airport).
This may not be possible from some places,
in
which case you'll most likely want to fly into one of the London
airports
(Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted or Luton), or another European airport,
and either get a connecting
flight to Manchester (which should be easy as Manchester Airport is
large), or take the train or bus from London to
Manchester.
Manchester
Airport
Manchester airport has direct flights from lost of places and
connecting
flights to the London airports (and other airports in Britain). There
is a
direct train service from Manchester
Airport to Manchester Piccadilly train station in central Manchester
(see the 'Travel by train' section below for information about
Manchester train stations).
You should be able to find details of flights into Manchester from the
airport's website: Manchester
Airport (or click here to go directly to the airport's 'destinations'
page).
Liverpool
John Lennon Airport
If you're travelling from Europe, it may be cheaper to fly to Liverpool
Airport using low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair
and then take the train
to Manchester - you can sometimes get some very cheap tickets with
airlines
flying into Liverpool.
You can easily get to Manchester from Liverpool Airport (although it
will probably take at least an hour and a half). You could take the
(regular)
bus to from Liverpool airport to Liverpool Lime Street train station,
then the
train
to Manchester (trains run from Liverpool to Manchester every 30 minutes
or so and the journey lasts about 45 minutes).
Travel
by train
It's easy to get to Manchester by train from anywhere in Britain,
including
the main airports. If your journey involves travel by train, it's worth
noting that there are several train stations in Manchester. The main
station
in central Manchester, where intercity trains normally terminate, is
called
Manchester
Piccadilly Station. There is also a station to
the north, where
some trains from Liverpool and Lancashire and other parts of the north
of England terminate, called Victoria station. The closest station to
the
University and Hulme Hall is called Oxford Road station. Some trains
from
Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and other cities stop here as well as at
Piccadilly,
and it may be worth getting off your train here, although Oxford Road
station
is much smaller that Piccadilly and it's easier to get a taxi from
Piccadilly.
All of
these stations are marked on the City Centre map which can be
downloaded
as indicated here.
If you take the train from London, you'll probably need to get to Euston Station, which is the big London station for trains to the North-West of England (and certain other destinations). It's easy to get to Euston by the London Underground railway (also known as 'the Tube'). This site also contains other information about travel in London.
You can find out details of train services to all of the
Manchester
stations at the National
Rail travel information site and you can buy train tickets
online by following the links there.
It's also easy to buy tickets on the day of travel at any train station
- you can just walk up to the counter - but you can normally get
(sometimes much) cheaper tickets
if you buy them in advance (and you can arrange to pick up pre-ordered
tickets from the machines at train stations).
Travel
by bus/coach
There is also a comprehensive national bus (='coach') network in
Britain
(organised under the name 'National Express' in England) and it can
be cheaper to
travel by bus than by train. It always takes longer by bus, however,
and
trains are normally more comfortable. Manchester is well
served by
the bus network, and buses arrive right in the centre of Manchester.
Full
details of services to Manchester from just about anywhere in
Britain
can be found at this site: www.nationalexpress.com.
You can also buy tickets online at that site.
What else is there to do in Manchester?
Manchester is a great city. It's one of the biggest
and liveliest cities in Britain, it has a remarkable history,
and
it has
renewed itself as a modern metropole.
You can read some information
about its attractions and things to do at the Lonely
Planet site, the Visit Manchester site, and at the Manchester
Evening News site.
Weather
In case you're wondering what the weather will be like... The British weather is very changeable, and it's almost impossible to say with any certainty, but, if previous years are anything to go by, then it could well be chilly (c. 12 C), cloudy, windy, and there may be rain. So do pack a jumper [=AmEng 'sweater'] and an umbrella! Having said that, it has been really quite hot (by UK standards) during the mfm in some previous years...