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Bowlee

Bowlee is a village in Greater Manchester, England.

The place

Bowlee is a village in Greater Manchester, England. Bowlee is situated along the Heywood Old Road (A6045) on the outskirts of Middleton between Rhodes and Heywood. Historically it forms part of Lancashire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bowlee

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
    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.

    2.4 km · municipal park in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation

    Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Middleton Road, Higher Crumpsall, North Manchester, England. The congregation was founded in 1935 and worships in the Ashkenazi rite.

    3.7 km · synagogue in the UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parkfield House

    Parkfield House, formerly known as Middleton Town Hall, is a former municipal building in Manchester Old Road, Middleton, a town in Greater Manchester in England. The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Middleton Borough Council, is currently vacant.

    2 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Michael's Church, Middleton

    St Michael's Church is in Townley Street, Middleton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Heywood and Middleton, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.1 km · grade II listed church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tonge Hall

    Tonge Hall is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house located in Tonge, Middleton, Greater Manchester, England.

    3.2 km · manor house in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Long Street Methodist Church Long Street Methodist Sunday School

    Long Street Methodist Church, also known as the Arts & Crafts Church, is a Methodist church and Sunday school on Long Street in Middleton, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Designed by the architect Edgar Wood and completed between 1899 and 1901, it is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building for its architectural and historical significance.

    2.6 km · church and school building in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Leonard, Middleton

    St Leonard's is a Church of England parish church in Middleton, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building and form part of Middleton's "Golden Cluster" of heritage sites.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed parish church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Whitefield Town Hall

    Whitefield Town Hall was a municipal building off Pinfold Lane, Whitefield, a town in Greater Manchester in England. The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Whitefield Urban District Council, was demolished in 2021.

    3.9 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Heaton Park Tramway

    The Heaton Park Tramway is a heritage tramway that operates within Heaton Park, a large municipal park in the English city of Manchester. It is operated by the Manchester Transport Museum Society, a registered charity.

    2.5 km · museum tramway in Heaton Park, Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Besses United Reformed Church

    Besses United Reformed Church is designated a Grade II building by Historic England. It is situated between Bury New Road and Bury Old Road at Besses o' th' Barn, an area of Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England.

    3.7 km · church in Besses o' th' Barn, Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England, 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.

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Getting to Bowlee

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 23 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 51 km
Stations
Crumpsall tram stop, 4 km · Middleton bus station, 2.5 km · Broadfield railway station, 3.7 km
  • Liverpool → Bowlee
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bowlee
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bowlee
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bowlee

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 Bowlee. 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.

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    293 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

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  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    328 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bowlee

Bowlee is 8 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Middletontown in Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England3.2 km
  • Prestwichtown in Greater Manchester, England3.8 km
  • Simistervillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK800 m
  • Rhodesvillage in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England1.3 km
  • Blackleyarea of the city of Manchester, England3.5 km
  • Charlestownelectoral ward of Manchester City Council4 km