The Midland is a 312 bedroom grand hotel situated in Manchester city centre, in North West England. Opened in September 1903, it was built by the Midland Railway to serve the adjacent Manchester Central railway station. A covered walkway into the station was built but demolished shortly after the Second World War.

Situated on Peter Street and Lower Mosley Street in the city centre, the Midland, designed by Charles Trubshaw was built between 1898 and 1903 for the Midland Railway Company. It is situated near to Manchester Central (formerly the G-Mex Centre and originally Manchester Central railway station), the Bridgewater Hall and Manchester Central Library. Its distinctive style is made of red brick and brown terracotta and its exterior is clad in several varieties of polished granite and Burmantofts terracotta. The building is grade II* listed.

The hotel was regularly used by American cotton traders on business selling raw cotton to Lancashire cotton cloth manufacturers; the businessmen referred to themselves as the Old Colony Club. One of the hotel's restaurants has been renamed the Colony in recognition of this fact.

Coordinates: 53°28′N 2°14′W / 53.467°N 2.233°W / 53.467; -2.233

Manchester ⁱ/ˈmæntʃɛstər/ is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England with an estimated population of 498,800 in 2010. Manchester lies within one of the United Kingdom's largest urban areas; the Greater Manchester Urban Area which has a population of 2.2 million. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian and the local authority is Manchester City Council.

Manchester is situated in the south-central part of North West England, fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south and the Pennines to the north and east. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium, which was established in c. 79 AD on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically, most of the city was a part of Lancashire, although areas south of the River Mersey were in Cheshire. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but it began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city. An early 19th-century factory building boom transformed Manchester from a township into a major mill town and borough that was granted city status in 1853. In 1894 the Manchester Ship Canal was built, creating the Port of Manchester.

Midland Hotel is the name of several English hotels. Many were former railway hotels constructed by the Midland Railway. It may refer to: