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Broadheath, Greater Manchester

Broadheath is a town in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England.

Broadheath, Greater Manchester
Broadheath, Greater Manchester · Wyld, William (Public domain)
The place

Broadheath is a town in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it had a population at the 2011 census of 12,538.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broadheath, Greater Manchester

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
    Altrincham

    Altrincham is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is located south of the River Mersey, 8 miles south-west of Manchester, 3 miles south-west of Sale and 10 miles east of Warrington.

    1.9 km · market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bridgewater Canal

    The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.

    5.2 km · canal in North West England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Moss Lane

    Moss Lane is a multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is currently used primarily for football matches and is the home ground of Altrincham.

    2.1 km · multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Trafford Training Centre

    Trafford Training Centre is the training ground and academy headquarters of English football club Manchester United. It is near the village of Carrington, Greater Manchester, England, and replaced The Cliff as the club's training ground in 2000.

    2.6 km · football training ground in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dunham Castle

    Dunham Castle is an early medieval castle in Dunham Massey, a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

    3.9 km · castle in Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Watch Hill Castle

    Watch Hill Castle is a medieval motte-and-bailey on the boundary of Bowdon and Dunham Massey in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it is a scheduled monument.

    3.9 km · medieval castle in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dunham Massey Hall

    Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey, in the district of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. During World War I, it was temporarily used as the Stamford Military Hospital.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed building in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is in the village and electoral ward of Bowdon near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    2.6 km · church in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Royd House

    Royd House is a Grade I listed building in Hale, Greater Manchester. It was designed by architect Edgar Wood as his own home and was built between 1914 and 1916.

    3 km · Grade I listed building in Trafford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St George's Church, Altrincham

    St George's Church is in the town of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1.1 km · grade II listed church in Altrincham, Trafford, England · 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 Broadheath, Greater Manchester

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 7 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 34 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 69 km
Stations
Altrincham Interchange, 1.4 km · Navigation Road station, 600 m · Ashley railway station, 4.9 km · Hale railway station, 2.4 km · Flixton railway station, 5.4 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Broadheath, Greater Manchester
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Broadheath, Greater Manchester
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Broadheath, Greater Manchester
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broadheath, Greater Manchester

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 Broadheath, Greater Manchester. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    293 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    310 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    337 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    363 km

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

Around it

Next door to Broadheath, Greater Manchester

Broadheath, Greater Manchester is 12 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Traffordmetropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England5 km
  • Stretfordtown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England5.9 km
  • Saletown within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England3.3 km
  • Partingtontown and civil parish in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom5.8 km
  • Urmstontown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England5.7 km
  • Carringtonvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England4.4 km