Travel and maps

The conference venue is the Hulme Hall lecture suite at the University of Manchester. NB: 'Hulme' = [hju:m].

This page should contain all the information that you'll need in order to find Hulme Hall - you may want to print out this page (and maybe some of the maps that it links to) to bring with you. 

If you have any queries, contact Patrick Honeybone (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk). 

To help you plan your travel by air or rail, this page contains links to local airports and to rail information.

If you'd like to find out more about Manchester in general, and about what there is do to in the city (apart from phonology...), click here.
 

How to get to Hulme Hall

Hulme Hall is located just south of the city centre.
Its address is: Hulme Hall, Oxford Place, Victoria Park, Manchester, M14 5RR.
The phone number for Hulme Hall's reception is #44 (0)161 275 0210.
Here it is on google maps.

This city centre map is quite useful: you could use it to reach the main campus of the University of Manchester on Oxford Road (marked in blue on the map), and Hulme Hall (which is also a students' hall of residence) is a little further towards the south of Manchester along Oxford Road, on Oxford Place.

Hulme Hall is c. 10-15 minutes' walk south of the main university campus, which is itself c. 10-15 minutes' walk to the south of the city centre. You will need to head south along Oxford Road (ie, away from the city centre), until you reach a series of hospitals all on the left-hand side and Whitworth Art Gallery on the right. There are then a series of shops and businesses on the left-hand side (including the Ford Maddox Brown pub - the 'conference pub'), which you need to go past. Then turn left into Rusholme Place, leading to Oxford Place (the turning before Rusholme Place is into Hathersage Road) and continue for about 150 yards, past the turning into Oxney Road (on the right). Hulme Hall is then on your right. Note that Oxford Road turns into Wilmslow Road about level with Rusholme Place, but where it cuts through the Manchester University campus it is still called Oxford Road.

You can easily catch a bus along Oxford Road from the city centre - there are hundreds, running every few minutes, but be careful as not all buses that go along Oxford Road go to near Hulme Hall. Good bets are the blue Magic Buses (number 142 or 143) and the white and purple First buses (e.g. number 41 or 42), which should cost one pound (check that the First bus display a 'Quids in' sign or it may cost more). The fare differs from bus company to bus company, though, so ask the driver how much it is when you get on. Stagecoach buses (numbers 42, 43) should also get you there but will likely cost more (over 2 pounds). You should be ok if you ask the driver for 'the stop after the hospitals at the end of Oxford Road' and they should be able to give you change - the part of town that you're going to is 'Rusholme' and you could ask the driver if the bus goes to Rusholme, to make sure that it will take you where you need to go.

Registration for the conference will be on the ground floor of the main Hulme Hall building, in the Porters' Lodge. Simply continue straight ahead after walking into the Hulme Hall complex, past parked cars on your left, until you come to a building with glass doors (also on your left). Go through the glass doors and turn right to find yourself in the Porters' Lodge.
 

Air, rail and bus travel to Manchester

Travel by air
If you're flying into Britain for the conference, it's definitely worth trying to get a ticket to Manchester Airport (or possibly to Liverpool Airport, as Liverpool is close to Manchester and there are frequent train services connecting the two cities, but if possible, go to Manchester Airport). This may not be possible from some places, in which case you'll most likely want to fly into one of the London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted or Luton), or another European airport, and either get a connecting flight to Manchester (which should be easy as Manchester Airport is large), or take the train or bus from London to Manchester.
 

Manchester Airport
Manchester airport has direct flights from lost of places and connecting flights to the London airports (and other airports in Britain). There is a direct train service from Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly train station in central Manchester (see the 'Travel by train' section below for information about Manchester train stations). You should be able to find details of flights into Manchester from the airport's website: Manchester Airport.
 

Liverpool John Lennon Airport
If you're travelling from Europe, it may be cheaper to fly to Liverpool Airport using low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair and then take the train to Manchester - you can sometimes get some very cheap tickets with airlines flying into Liverpool. You can easily get to Manchester from Liverpool Airport (although it will probably take at least an hour and a half). You could take the (regular) bus to from Liverpool airport to Liverpool Lime Street train station, then the train to Manchester (trains run from Liverpool to Manchester every 30 minutes or so and the journey lasts about 45 minutes).

Travel by train
It's easy to get to Manchester by train from anywhere in Britain, including the main airports. If your journey involves travel by train, it's worth noting that there are several train stations in Manchester. The main station in central Manchester, where intercity trains normally terminate, is called Manchester Piccadilly Station. There is also a station to the north, where some trains from Liverpool and Lancashire and other parts of the north of England terminate, called Victoria station. The closest station to the University and Hulme Hall is called Oxford Road station. Some trains from Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and other cities stop here as well as at Piccadilly, and it may be worth getting off your train here, although Oxford Road station is much smaller that Piccadilly and it's easier to get a taxi from Piccadilly. All of these stations are marked on the City Centre map which can be downloaded as indicated here.

If you take the train from London, you'll probably need to get to Euston Station, which is the big London station for trains to the North-West of England (and certain other destinations). It's easy to get to Euston by the London Underground railway (also known as 'the Tube'). This site also contains other information about travel in London.

You can find out details of train services to all of the Manchester stations at the National Rail travel information site and you can buy train tickets online by following the links there. It's also easy to buy tickets on the day of travel at any train station - you can just walk up to the counter - but you can normally get (sometimes much) cheaper tickets if you buy them in advance (and you can arrange to pick up pre-ordered tickets from the machines at train stations).

Travel by bus/coach
There is also a comprehensive national bus (='coach') network in Britain (organised under the name 'National Express' in England) and it can be cheaper to travel by bus than by train. It always takes longer by bus, however, and trains are normally more comfortable. Manchester is well served by the bus network, and buses arrive right in the centre of Manchester. Full details of services to Manchester from just about anywhere in Britain can be found at this site: www.nationalexpress.com. You can also buy tickets online at that site.