BDSM in Manchester

21 Nov 2008, 4:32 PM GMT

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Manchester listings
- Fetish & BDSM, shops & events

Guides

Clubs Guide
- big or small, Fetish or BDSM

Shops Guide
- short reviews of local places selling BDSM or Fetish gear

Visitors Guide
- information for visitors to Manchester

Web Board & Chatroom
- IC's discussion forums for BDSM people in the area

Events

Club Lash
- the North's biggest BDSM/Fetish night

The Manchester Munch
- the longest running UK munch

Visiting Manchester

Manchester has quite a compact city centre, has good public transport (by UK standards) and is suprisingly car-friendly if you pick your route carefully. This page is the 60 second guide to visiting the city...

Buses, Trains and Trams

The GMPTE website has information and maps about public transport routes in Greater Manchester.

The City Centre has 3 free MetroShuttle bus services, which run every 5-10 minutes between the major railway stations and other landmarks.

When finding your way around the city, there are invaluable street maps on the back of a hundred or so JCDecaux billboards dotted around the city centre. Look out for them if you've not got an A-Z with you!

For long distance rail travel, see National Rail's journey planner for help using this country's sometimes chaotic rail system.

Central Manchester has three main stations. The largest is Piccadilly, where West Coast mainline trains from London (2hr 15mins) and Birmingham (1hr 30 mins) terminate.

The Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations are also on the Liverpool to Hull transpennine line which also goes through Huddersfield, Leeds and York (on the East Coast mainline.) Both Piccadilly and Oxford Road are on the south edge of the city centre.

The third station is Victoria, which serves some lines to the North and East, is on the north west edge.

Manchester also has a few suburban railway services (including local services running on the long distance routes) and Metro Link tram system (which runs on disused railway routes outside the city centre.) If you get a rail ticket into Manchester marked "CTLZ" you can use this for trams in the city centre.

By car

Manchester is ringed by the M60 orbital motorway, which joins the M62, M66, M61 and M56 motorways. Long distance routes are the M62 on the north side of the city, going west to Liverpool, and east to Leeds, York and Hull; and the M6 to the west of the city, which connects to the M62 and M56, and links Manchester to Birmingham and the south.

Getting into the city is easiest from the west (follow the M602 from the M60/M62 junction and use the A57(M)) and south sides (follow the M56 as it turns into the A5103 dual carriageway.) The major routes from the north and east sides are well sign-posted but involve a lot of single carriageways.

There are many NCP style multistorey car parks in the city centre.

Hotels

There are budget priced Ibis (Portland Street and Charles Street) and Travel Inn (Portland Street) hotels in the city centre. More up market are the Malmaison and Radisson Edwardian.

Other things to see

Manchester City Council's Attractions page has links to things like museums, art galleries and famous buildings.

BBC Manchester has The Village pages, with news, club, bar and event listings for the Gay Village. (They even list Club Lash - although the details are out of date.)

The Manchester Evening News runs Manchester Online with more general news and listings for Greater Manchester.