



* Areas highlighted in red do not show officially designated green belt, but green space separating conurbations. However, it is likely some or all of the space highlighted will be green belt.

* City centres tend to be lighter in colour in satellite images. The surburbs tend to show as dark grey, probably due to all the slate coloured house roofs.

* Click on the image for a larger version.

* The areas were highlighted, often after zooming in closer to see where suburbs ended. In the screengrabs of this ratio it isnt always quite as clear.









Liverpool and Manchester are two of the largest cities in Northern England. Here we can see in 2018 that it is possible to travel all the way from the outskirts of east Manchester, or Stockport in the south to Liverpool with only three slim green spaces. Warrington in the middle of the two cities, means there is an urbanised sprawl of 35 miles wide. The urbanisation is similar travelling north. Warrington, St Helens and Wigan are all just about merged into one large urbanised area of 25 miles.











