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Manchester

United Kingdom · 12 quests

History

2 quests
John Rylands Library, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
John Rylands Library
A tiny scrap here is older than the library
Victoria Baths, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Victoria Baths
Three pools fit inside one tiled bathhouse

Nature

2 quests
Fletcher Moss, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Fletcher Moss
Its name came from the man who gave it away
Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Castlefield Viaduct
A railway bridge now carries a garden

Art

2 quests
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery
One painting hides a whole city at work
Afflecks, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Afflecks
A former department store became an indoor maze

Food

3 quests
Steak and Ale Pie, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Steak and Ale Pie
Dark ale gives the filling its deep flavour
Roast Beef, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Roast Beef
Its tallest piece is not the beef
Black Daal, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Black Daal
It cooks for 24 hours before it reaches the table

Sport

1 quest
Etihad Stadium, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Etihad Stadium
Its first big event was not a football match

Party

2 quests
Rebellion, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Rebellion
Its small room helped shape Manchester’s rock scene
Blues Kitchen, Manchester🇬🇧 Manchester
Blues Kitchen
This dance floor once belonged to a TV studio

United Kingdom

Photo quests in Manchester

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Manchester holds twelve quests across six categories, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in Art behind it. The one category with nothing in Manchester so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Victoria Baths. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Manchester quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Manchester the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Manchester

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Manchester

How many photo quests are there in Manchester?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: John Rylands Library, Fletcher Moss and Manchester Art Gallery.
What is there to do in Manchester beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Manchester is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Manchester holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Victoria Baths, in History.
Can you do all the Manchester quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 12 falls within 7.8 km of the middle of the Manchester list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Manchester quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Manchester means one quest: Victoria Baths.
How do I prove I visited a place in Manchester?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Manchester is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from John Rylands Library fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Manchester sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.