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 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.
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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.
- 01Edgeley 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 - 02St. 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 - 03Christ 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 - 04St 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 - 05Stockport 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
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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 → Bredbury57 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bredbury56 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bredbury82 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £9–12
- 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 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.
- 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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Next door to Bredbury
Bredbury is 11 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- 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