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Bredbury

Bredbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England; it lies 8 miles (12.9 km) south-east of Manchester, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Stockport and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Hyde.

Bredbury
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The place

Bredbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England; it lies 8 miles (12.9 km) south-east of Manchester, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Stockport and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Hyde. The Bredbury and Woodley built up area had a population of 17,040 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bredbury

5 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
    Edgeley Park

    Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, Stockport County Football Club moved in by 1902, a year before the rugby club went defunct.

    4.2 km · football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Elisabeth's Church

    St. Elisabeth's Church is an Anglo Catholic church in Reddish, an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse in the Victorian Gothic style.

    3.9 km · church in Reddish, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Christ Church, Heaton Norris

    Christ Church consists of the remains of a redundant Anglican church on Wellington Road North in Heaton Norris, a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Only the tower and part of the walls of the aisles survive.

    3.7 km · church in Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St George's Church, Heaviley

    St George's Church is in Buxton Road, Heaviley, an area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Stockport, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Heaviley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stockport Town Hall

    Stockport Town Hall is a building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, that houses the government and administrative functions of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. Stockport Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.4 km · town hall in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · 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 Bredbury

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 14 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 50 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km
Stations
Stockport railway station, 3.7 km · Hazel Grove railway station, 4.7 km · Romiley railway station, 1.7 km · Woodsmoor railway station, 4.2 km · Levenshulme railway station, 5.9 km
  • Liverpool → Bredbury
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bredbury
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bredbury
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bredbury

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 Bredbury. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    304 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    309 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    345 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    371 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bredbury

Bredbury is 11 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stockporttown in Greater Manchester, England2.7 km
  • Hydetown in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England3.7 km
  • Dentontown in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England3.9 km
  • Hazel Grovesuburb within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England5 km
  • Marpletown in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England4.2 km
  • Levenshulmeresidential area of Manchester, England5.7 km