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MATTS is located near the town centre of Wilmslow in a large, airy and sunny room in Wilmslow Library, SK9 1NW. Enter the library through the main door, turn left and go up the stairs. The room is immediately in front of you at the top of the stairs. Note that the main Library doors do not open until 10.00 AM on weekdays (9.00 on Saturdays), so on those days you will need to enter via the small fire door to the left of the main doors and walk up the stairs.

Travel:

We are a ten minute drive from the M56 near Manchester Airport with close motorway links to the M6 and M60.

We are a five minute brisk walk from Wilmslow mainline railway station with frequent high speed direct trains to Manchester, London and throughout the country. At least four trains each hour make the journey to Manchester City Centre in 15-20 minutes and at least one train each hour to London Euston, most in under 2 hours, some in 1 hour 47 minutes.

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Parking: The car park outside Sainsbury’s/Hoopers (1 minute walk) costs £3.20 (in 2024) for up to 4 hours, and you can recover half of that if you shop in Sainsbury’s. The section of the car park directly behind the shop, nearest to the 'Coach and Four' pub, is for longer-term parking and costs £3.90 for 4-6 hours, but is sometimes full. The Broadway Meadow car park near the leisure centre is £3.20 for 4 - 6 hours and is only a five-minute walk.

You can park for free on the nearer part of Chapel Lane if you’re lucky enough to find a space or, more likely, on and off the Knutsford Road and around Lindfield Estate S, SK9 5JD. All of these are less than a 10-minute walk from the Library. Or, if you're happy to walk for 13 minutes, there are always spaces in the road in Gravel Lane.

Accessibility: Wilmslow Library meets all modern standards for accessibility.

Wilmslow is a small, pleasant, well-to-do suburban town with a mainline railway station set in Cheshire countryside close to Manchester Airport (the largest airport in the UK after Heathrow and Gatwick) and 11 miles from Manchester city centre.

Greater Manchester is the most populous urban area in the UK after London, with 2.8 million people, about one-third the population of Greater London. It is also, by a number of other metrics, England’s (and the UK’s) second city (after London), with many important learning, cultural and media centres.

Manchester is a much less expensive place to live than London and is well-known for its friendly and welcoming atmosphere. In 2021 'Time Out' listed Manchester in 3rd place after only San Francisco and Amsterdam in its list of the 37 Best Cities in the World, and was voted top for ‘nightlife’, ‘creativity’, ‘community spirit’, ‘friendliness’ and ‘getting to know your neighbours’.

The United Kingdom regularly comes first in international rankings of the best countries to study abroad (see, for example, here, here and here). The UK is a highly developed country with a tradition of outstanding educational institutions. Current exchange rates also favour studying in the UK over most other developed countries.