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Worth seeing in and around Atherton

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
    St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Leigh

    St Joseph's Church is an active Roman Catholic church in, Leigh in Greater Manchester, England. It is in the parish of St Edmund Arrowsmith.

    3.4 km · grade II listed building in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh

    The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is a member of the Salford & Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford, diocese of Manchester.

    3.3 km · church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Garrett Hall

    Garrett Hall or The Garrett is a former manor house that became a farmhouse in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England. The hall was designated a grade II listed building in 1987.

    3.7 km · grade II listed building in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Anne's Church, Hindsford

    St Anne's Church is a redundant Anglican parish church in Tyldesley Road, Hindsford, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1 km · grade II listed church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St George's Church, Tyldesley

    St George's Church is an Anglican parish church serving Tyldesley and Shakerley in Greater Manchester, England. It is part of Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester.

    1.9 km · grade II listed church in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St James' Church, Daisy Hill

    St James' Church is in the Daisy Hill district of Westhoughton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Manchester and is part of the Bolton deanery and Bolton archdeaconry.

    2 km · church in Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St John the Baptist's Church, Atherton

    St John the Baptist's Church is in Market Place, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Salford, and diocese of Manchester.

    200 m · grade II listed church in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Leigh Union workhouse

    Leigh Union workhouse, also known as the Leigh workhouse and after 1930, Atherleigh Hospital, was a workhouse built in 1850 by the Leigh Poor Law Union on Leigh Road, Atherton in the historic county of Lancashire.

    2.4 km · building in Atherton, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Tyldesley Town Hall

    Tyldesley Town Hall is a municipal building in Elliott Street, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England. Initially the local Liberal Party Club, the town hall went on to become the meeting place of Tyldesley Urban District Council.

    2.2 km · town hall in Tyldesley Wigan, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Damhouse

    Damhouse or Astley Hall is a Grade II* listed building on Church Road in Astley, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium, and since restoration in 2000, houses offices, a clinic, nursery and tearooms.

    3.4 km · manor house · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Atherton

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 24 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 32 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 67 km
Stations
Atherton railway station, 1.2 km · Daisy Hill railway station, 2.3 km · Hag Fold railway station, 1.1 km · Atherleigh railway station, 2.5 km · Leigh bus station, 3.5 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Atherton
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Atherton
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Atherton
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Atherton

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 Atherton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.

From Wikivoyage: Bolton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    285 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    300 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    321 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    326 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    346 km

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

Around it

Next door to Atherton

Atherton is 18 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Leightown in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.2 km
  • Westhoughtontown in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England3.6 km
  • Tyldesleytown in Greater Manchester, England1.9 km
  • Hunger Hillsettlement and unparished area in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England3.9 km
  • Over Hultonvillage and unparished area in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England2.7 km
  • Higher Foldssettlement in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England2.2 km