ANCOATS
A neighbourhood reborn with flavour, music, and makers.
Ancoats, just northeast of Manchester city centre, is where industrial heritage and modern creativity meet. Red-brick mills and canal-side warehouses – once humming with cotton looms – now host artisan bakeries, specialty coffee roasters, studios, and award-winning restaurants clustered around Cutting Room Square.
Stroll past cast-iron bridges and cobbles to Halle St Peter’s, where music rehearsals spill into evenings, or wander the courtyards of Royal Mills for glimpses of exposed beams and soaring brickwork. Independent shops, microbreweries, and street art add colour to the Victorian skyline, while leafy pocket parks and riverside paths soften the urban edges. By day it’s laptops and flat whites; by night it’s clinking glasses, wood-fired ovens, and warm neighbourhood buzz—a district that feels both distinctly Mancunian and effortlessly cosmopolitan.


























































































































































