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Blackley

Blackley is a suburban area of Manchester, in the county of Greater Manchester, England.

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The place

Blackley is a suburban area of Manchester, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Manchester city centre, on the River Irk.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blackley

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
    North Road

    North Road was a football and cricket ground in Newton Heath, Manchester, England. It was the first home of Manchester United Football Club – then known as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club – from its foundation in 1878 until 1893, when the club moved to a new ground at Bank Street, Clayton.

    2.6 km · football stadium and cricket field in Newton Heath, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadhurst Park

    Broadhurst Park is a football ground in Moston, Manchester, England. It is the home of F.C. United of Manchester and Moston Juniors F.C. The ground was known by its project name, Moston Community Stadium, before being changed at a members' meeting in 2014.

    2.9 km · football ground in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Manchester Jewish Museum

    The Manchester Jewish Museum is a Jewish history museum, located on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, England. The museum occupies the site of a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, the place of worship for the Congregation of Spanish & Portuguese Jews, called the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, also the Sha'are Tephillah Synagogue.

    3.1 km · museum in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Cliff

    The Cliff is a sports ground in Broughton, Salford, England, on the banks of the River Irwell, that was rugby league club Broughton Rangers' home ground until 1933. It was purchased by association football club Manchester United for use as their training ground.

    3.7 km · sports ground in Broughton, Salford, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Moor Lane

    Moor Lane, currently known as the AIG Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the area of Kersal, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the current home ground of Salford City Football Club since its opening in 1978. It has a current capacity of 5,108, following its last expansion in 2017.

    3.7 km · English football stadium in Greater Manchester · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Heaton Park

    Heaton Park is a public park in Higher Blackley, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, covering an area of over 600 acres. The park includes the grounds of a Grade I listed, neoclassical 18th century country house, Heaton Hall.

    2.6 km · municipal park in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester

    The Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester aims to preserve and promote the public transport heritage of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is located in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester.

    2.3 km · museum in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    North Manchester Jamia Mosque

    North Manchester Jamia Mosque is a mosque in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, run under the headship of Qamaruzzaman Azmi by the Ibadur-Rahman Trust. It is one of the largest Muslim centres in Europe.

    1.9 km · mosque in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Corpus Christi Priory

    Corpus Christi Priory was a Catholic Premonstratensian priory in Manchester, England.

    3.4 km · church in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St John the Evangelist, Cheetham Hill

    The Church of St John the Evangelist is in Waterloo Road, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of North Manchester, the archdeaconry of Manchester, and the diocese of Manchester.

    2.3 km · church in Manchester, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Blackley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 20 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 46 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 53 km
Stations
Moston railway station, 3.4 km · Central Park tram stop, 2.8 km · Monsall tram stop, 2.5 km · Dean Lane railway station, 3.3 km · Newton Heath railway station, 3 km
  • Liverpool → Blackley
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Blackley
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blackley
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £11–15
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blackley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.

From Wikivoyage: Manchester, 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

    296 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    321 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    331 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    357 km

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

Around it

Next door to Blackley

Blackley is 5 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Newton Heathurban area of the city of Manchester, England3.6 km
  • Harpurheyinner-city area of Manchester, England1.9 km
  • Simistervillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.4 km
  • Rhodesvillage in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England2.3 km
  • Mostondistrict of Manchester, England2.6 km
  • Miles Plattinginner city district of Manchester, England3.7 km