Manchester Street Map Poster

Manchester’s compact centre packs an extraordinary amount into a small footprint, and its street map shows why. The grid radiates outward from Piccadilly Gardens and the long axis of Deansgate, threaded throughout by the canals that powered the world’s first industrial city — the Rochdale and Bridgewater waterways still trace clear lines across this printable Manchester city map. Down at Castlefield those canals knot together at the oldest part of the city.

The street map also captures the small, dense blocks of the Northern Quarter, the warehouse streets that have become the creative heart of the place. It is a layout shaped by mills, canals and railways rather than grand avenues, which gives the city map an honest, working character all its own.

Mounted on a wall the poster brings a bit of industrial-era texture to a kitchen, bar or home office, and the high-resolution download is free in the colour theme you prefer. Putting together a northern set? Add the Glasgow map poster or look through the other United Kingdom city maps here.