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

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.
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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.
- 01North 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 - 02Broadhurst 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 - 03Manchester 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 - 04The 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 - 05Moor 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 - 06Heaton 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 - 07Museum 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 - 08North 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 - 09Corpus Christi Priory
Corpus Christi Priory was a Catholic Premonstratensian priory in Manchester, England.
3.4 km · church in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church 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
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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 → Blackley52 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Blackley54 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Blackley95 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.
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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