[Tom]

Originally posted by Fom
Manchester isnt in Lancashire... manchester has its own county now called "Greater Manchester" which includes the area surrounding manchester. Lancashire... starts somewhere in salford and goes round the edge of greater manchester, closest I am to Lancashire is Oldham.
Not many people know this as it is reasonably new... but if you live in manchester, thats why busses havent got "Lancashire" on them, instead they have GMPTE, "Greater Manchester public transport something" :P

New fact for today

But a lot of people refer to Greater Manchester as Manchester, and GMPTE transport goes outside of Greater Manchester as well. It splits a few cities around Manchester, one example you given is Salford, so thats where it all starts to get confusing. Live in one half of Salford and you live in Greater Manchester, which most people will call Manchester and confuse the two, and live in the other half and you're in Lancashire. Then where is the line drawn? Another (similar) example is Trafford, half of which is in Lancs and the other half in Cheshire. So it is very ******ed up and confusing