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North West Geography publishes articles on the north west of England for academics, teachers and students of geography.
North West Geography is published twice yearly, and once accepted, articles will be published as soon as possible.
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- Research Papers. Scholarly contributions to geographic knowledge on the north west of England.
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- North West in Maps. Annotated views of the north west through maps.
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Editorial Team
Dr Cathy Delaney (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Managing Editor
c.delaney@mmu.ac.uk.
Dr Martin Dodge (University of Manchester)
Assistant Editor
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Volume 24, Number 2, 2024
Jonathan Dale, Laura Conway, Michael P Kennedy, Tom Sizmur
The influence of grazing on comparisons between pre-existing and restored saltmarshes.
Volume 24, Number 1, 2024
Rebecca Holland and Patrick Byrne,
Spatial and temporal variability of road-deposited sediment (RDS) within the Greater Manchester urban conurbation, UK.
Kimberley Peters,
Geography H2O: Compounding Water Studies.
Volume 23, Number 1, 2023
James Watts,
“Carrying with her a most influential and intelligent audience.” Women Lecturers, the British Empire, and the Manchester Geographical Society, 1884-1920.
Rachael Jones,
The changing face of Whalley Nab, Lancashire: A naturalistic and cultural landscape.
Ian Douglas
Obituary: Nigel Lawson 1941-1922.
Steve Rigby
Book Review ‘Are mathematicians human?’ Alan Turing’s Manchester. By Jonathan Swinton
Volume 22, Number 2, 2022
Jonathan G.A. Lageard and Eleanor A. Robinson,
An investigation of subfossil Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) from Curlew Lane, Lancashire.
Volume 22, Number 1, 2022
Andrew Taylor,
Mapping the city: One man’s contribution to city centre maps.
Dr Samantha Wilkinson and Dr Catherine Wilkinson,
Not a hair out of place? Embracing messy positionality when researching the geographies of hair in Greater Manchester.
Volume 21, Number 1, 2021
Haseeb Mahmood and Robert Sparkes,
Spatio-temporal analysis of the potential toxicological burden of pollutants in a fluvial system, the River Irwell, Manchester, through anthropogenic activities (present and historical) and natural mechanisms.
Rachael Jones,
Reconstructing the late-nineteenth century landscape and natural habitats of south west Accrington using the artwork of Thomas Frederick Worrall (1872–1957).
Osborne, A.W., Keightley, A.T., Ingleby, E.R., Longden, M.T., Rogers, A.V., Steel, D. and Davies, M.C.,
From bare peat desert to nature reserve within ten years: a review of restoration practice on Little Woolden Moss, Manchester, UK.
Volume 20, Number 1, 2020
Thomas A.G. Smyth, Ella Thorpe and Paul Rooney,
Blowout Evolution Between 1999 and 2015 in Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve, England.
Volume 19, Number 2, 2019
Rory Scott and Neil Entwistle,
Toward a protocol for UAV surveying in Environmental Sciences.
Philip D. Hughes, Matt D. Tomkins and Andrew G. Stimson,
Glaciation of the English Lake District during the Late-glacial: a new analysis using 10Be and Schmidt hammer exposure dating.
Volume 19, Number 1, 2019
P J Murphy,
The Vaccary Walls of Wycoller, Pennine East Lancashire – a geologist’s view.
Paul Hindle,
Book Review. Manchester – Mapping the City, T. Wyke, B. Robson & M. Dodge.
Volume 18, Number 2, 2018
Brian Robson,
Mapping the Rise and Fall of Ancoats Hall.
William J. Fletcher and Peter A. Ryan,
Radiocarbon constraints on historical peat accumulation rates and atmospheric deposition of heavy metals at Holcroft Moss, Warrington.
Ian Douglas
Obituary: Kieth Sutton 1943-1918
Volume 18, Number 1, 2018
Michael Hardman, Rebecca St. Clair, Richard Armitage, Veronica Barry, Peter Larkham and Graeme Sherriff,
Urban agriculture: evaluating informal and formal practices.
Samantha Wilkinson and Catherine Wilkinson,
‘Working from home’: academics and Airbnb, an autoethnographic account.
Volume 17, Number 2, 2017
K. R. Butt and P. D. Putwain,
Earthworm community development in organic matter-amended plots on reclaimed colliery spoil.
Jonathan Lageard, Lizzie Bonnar, Thomas Briggs, Simon Caporn, Emma Clarke, Chris Field, Callum Hayles, Anna Keightley, Graham Smith, Lydia McCool, Peter Ryan and Tor Yip,
Educational potential of peatlands and prehistoric bog oaks in Lancashire and adjoining region.
Brian Robson and Nick Scarle,
Bury in 1831: a newly-discovered early plan of the town.
Jennifer O’Brien,
A–Level Geography Workshop — a funding report.
Volume 17, Number 1, 2017
Richard Payne
Fieldwork is good – but why?
Kathy Burrell,
Stories from “The World in One City”: Migrant Lives in Liverpool.
Volume 16, Number 1, 2016
Cathy Delaney and Oliver Sikora,
Evidence for Paleolake Rawtenstall around Stacksteads, Upper Irwell Valley, Rossendale, U.K.
Volume 15, Number 2, 2015
Rodolfo Alves da Luz, Nigel Lawson, Ian Douglas and Cleide Rodrigues,
Historical sources and meandering river systems in urban sites: the case of Manchester, UK.
Volume 15, Number 1, 2015
Irene Delgado-Fernandez, Matthew McBride, Rachel Platt and Mark Cameron,
Sefton Coast’s vulnerability to coastal flooding using DEM data.
Simon J. Cook, Toby N. Tonkin, Nicholas G. Midgley and Anya Wicikowski,
Analysis of ‘hummocky moraine’ using Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry
Volume 14, Number 1, 2014
Peter Wilson and Tom Lord,
Towards a robust deglacial chronology for the northwest England sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet.
Volume 13, Number 2, 2013
Brian Robsom,
John Wood’s town plans and the evolving urban hierarchy of Cumbria.
Volume 13, Number 1, 2013
Peter Wilson,
Did a glacier exist in the valley of Bleatarn Gill, central Lake District, during the Loch Lomond Stade?
Mark Toogood and Hannah Neate,
Preston Bus Station: Heritage, Regeneration, and Resistance
Volume 12, Number 1, 2012
Claire Smith and Nigel Lawson,
Exceeding climate thresholds: Extreme weather impacts on the environment and population of Greater Manchester.
Philip D. Hughes, Roger J. Braithwaite, Cassandra R. Fenton and Christoph Schnabel,
Two Younger Dryas glacier phases in the English Lake District: geomorphological evidence and preliminary 10Be exposure ages.
Jonathan Darling, Ruth L Healey and Lauren Healey,
Seeing the City anew: Asylum Seeker perspectives of ‘belonging’ in Greater Manchester.
Volume 11, Number 2, 2011
Peter Wilson,
Re-interpretation of the ‘relict protalus rock glacier’ at Grasmoor End, northwest Lake District.
Volume 11, Number 1, 2011
Ramirez, F. A., Armitage, R. P., Danson, F. M., and Bandugula, V.,
Characterising phenological changes in North West forests using terrestrial laser scanning: some preliminary results.
Peter Wilson,
The last glacier in Dovedale, Lake District.
Colin Richards,
Thomas Jeffery’s Map of “The County of Westmoreland” (1770): an evaluation of its contribution to understanding late eighteenth century landscape.
Richard J. Payne,
Meteors and perceptions of environmental change in the annus mirabilis AD1783-4.
Volume 10, Number 2, 2010
Richard J. Payne,
The ‘Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures’ of Benjamin Franklin.
M Cross,
The use of a field open-sided direct shear box for the determination of the shear strength of shallow residual and colluvial soils on hillslopes in the south Pennines, Derbyshire.
Paul Hindle,
Continuing change: Manchester Geographical Society, 1998-2010.
Paul Hindle,
Book reviews.
Volume 10, Number 1, 2010
C. A. Delaney, E. J. Rhodes, R. G. Crofts, and C. D. Jones,
Evidence for former glacial lakes in the High Peak and Rossendale Plateau areas, north west England.
Volume 9, Number 2, 2009
Gary Warnaby,
Changing Representation of the Industrial Town: an analysis of official guides in Bury from 1925.
Derek Antrobus,
Three Stories of Salford: transformation, identity and metropolitan peripheries.
Volume 9, Number 1, 2009
Chris Perkins,
Placing golf.
Ian Whyte,
The Impact of Parliamentary Enclosure on a Cumbrian Community: Watermillock, c. 1780-1840.
Volume 8, Number 2, 2008
Charles Rawding,
Changing Land Use in North East Lancashire during the Second World War.
Volume 8, Number 1, 2008
Mervyn Busteed,
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Irish Manchester, 1825-1922.
Nigel Lawson and Sarah Lindley,
A deeper understanding of climate induced risk to urban infrastructure: case studies of past events in Greater Manchester.
Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge,
The potential of user-generated cartography: a case study of the OpenStreetMap project and Mapchester mapping party.
S. Watkins and I. Whyte,
Extreme flood events in upland catchments in cumbria since 1600: the evidence of historical records.
Andrew M. Folkard,
Temperature structure and turbulent mixing processes in Cumbrian lakes.
Volume 7, Number 2, 2007
Richard D. Knowles and Adwoa A. Ametepe,
Bus Patronage, Bus Deregulation and Ten Year Transport Plan Targets in Gateway Cities: the case of Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
Volume 7, Number 1, 2007
Kevin R. Butt and Emma J. Chamberlain,
Distribution of earthworms across the Sefton Coast sand dune ecosystem.
Peter Wilson,
Kirkby Fell rock slope failure.
Volume 6, Number 1, 2006
Charles Rawding,
East Lancashire housing markets.
Fabienne Carraz, Kevin G. Taylor, Stefan Stainsby and Davina Robertson,
Contaminated urban road deposited sediment (RDS), Greater Manchester, UK: a spatial assessment of potential surface water impacts.
Human or Physical? People and Places of Edge Hill,
New Book.
Volume 5, Number 1, 2005
David W. Shimwell,
Evidence for the vegetation and habitat of the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in the Loch Lomond stadial of north-west England.
Paul Hindle,
The tram roads of the Manchester Bolton & Bury canal
Chris Perkins and Anna Z.Thomson,
Mapping for health: cycling and walking maps of the city.
Volume 3, Number 2, 2003
Richard D. Knowles and Adwoa A. Kevin R. Butt, Christopher N. Lowe and Tim Walmsley,
Monitoring earthworm communities in translocated grasslands affected by the construction of Runway 2 at Manchester Airport.
Volume 3, Number 1, 2003
Charles Rawding,
Agricultural practices and state intervention during the Second World War: a case study of South West Lancashire.
Dawn Nicholson,
Breakdown mechanisms and morphology for man-made rockslopes in North West England.
Catherine Delaney,
The last glacial stage (the Devensian) in North West England.
Volume 2, Number 2, 2002
Ian Whyte,
Whose Lake District? Contested landscapes and changing sense of place.
Chris Perkins,
Tactile mapping quality: the Manchester experience.
Paul Hindle,
Ordnance Survey 25 inch Maps of Lancashire.
Chris Perkins,
Stockport Green A-Z, Section 1: Brinnington, Reddish and the Heatons.
Volume 2, Number 1, 2002
Richard Phillips,
Exploring an imperial region: North West England.
A. D. Thomas, A. J. Dougill, K. Berry and J. A. Byrne,
Soil crusts in the Molopo Basin, Southern Africa.
M. E. J. Cutler, J. McMorrow and M. Evans,
Remote sensing of upland peat erosion in the southern Pennines.
Paul Hindle,
The North West in Maps: Thomas Donald’s map of Cumberland, 1774.
Wilfred H. Theakstone,
‘Manchester’ by Clare Hartwell.
Volume 1, Number 2, 2001
G. L. Heritage, A. Chappell and A. D. Thomas,
A field-based approach to integrating catchment and river channel processes.
Catherine Delaney,
Esker formation and the nature of deglaciation: the Ballymahon Esker, Central Ireland.
Mervyn Busteed,
Research report on Irish Nationalist Processions in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Manchester.
Paul Hindle,
The North West in Maps: Ordnance Survey 25 inch maps – Rochdale (South), 1908.
Volume 1, Number 1, 2001
Mark Banks,
Representing regional life: the place discourses of Granada Tonight.
Andrew J. Dougill and Matt Stroh,
Recreational users of Lake District bridleways: conflict or camaraderie?
Mervyn Busteed,
”I shall never return to Hibernia’s bowers“ Irish migrant identities in early Victorian Manchester.
Laura Shotbolt, Andrew D. Thomas, Simon M. Hutchinson and Andrew J. Dougill,
Reconstructing the history of heavy metal pollution in the southern Pennines from the sedimentary record of reservoirs: methods and preliminary results.
Paul Hindle,
The influence of the Gay Village on migration to central Manchester.
Paul Hindle,
The North West in Maps: Ordnance Survey One Inch Maps – Rossendale 1895.