Manchester

Worth seeing in and around Manchester

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Old Trafford

   Old Trafford is a football stadium in the Old Trafford area of Greater Manchester, England. It is the home ground of Manchester United.

   3.6 km · football stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Etihad Stadium

   The Etihad Stadium is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 61,038, making it the 6th-largest football stadium in England and 8th-largest stadium in the United Kingdom. Built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the stadium has since staged the 2008 UEFA Cup final, England football internationals, rugby league matches, a boxing world title fight, the England rugby union team's final group match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup and summer music concerts during the football off-season.

   3 km · stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of Manchester

   The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.

   1.7 km · public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Manchester Arena

   Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space. With a capacity of 23,000 it is the second largest indoor arena in the UK after Co-op Live and third largest in Europe.

   1 km · event arena in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Manchester Metrolink

   Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.

   7 km · light rail and tram system in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Manchester Metropolitan University

   Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992.

   1.1 km · university in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Ashton-under-Lyne

   Ashton-under-Lyne, also known as Ashton, is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Its population was 48,604 at the 2021 census.

   9.8 km · market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   English Football Hall of Fame

   The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum in Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players and managers who have become significant figures in the history of the English game.

   700 m · hall of fame in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   University of Salford

   The University of Salford is a public research university located in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile west of Manchester city centre. The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status in 1967, following the Robbins Report into higher education.

   1.8 km · public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Manchester Cathedral

    Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.

    700 m · church of England cathedral in Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Where to eat

As you would expect from such a cosmopolitan city, Manchester has a huge selection of restaurants and eateries that serve a vast array of cuisines. Look hard enough and you will be able to find any type of international and British food. It is also worth exploring some of the suburbs for superb, small independent bistros and restaurants. West Didsbury and Chorlton are noted for their large number of great eateries.

From Wikivoyage: Manchester, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Manchester

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 43 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km

Stations

Manchester Piccadilly station, 1 km · Manchester Victoria station, 900 m · Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 600 m

• Liverpool → Manchester

  50 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–6
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• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Manchester

  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Manchester

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Manchester

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Manchester. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Manchester – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.