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Burnage

Burnage is an area of Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the city centre, east of Kingsway.

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The place

Burnage is an area of Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the city centre, east of Kingsway. The population at the 2011 census was 15,227. It lies between Withington to the west, Levenshulme to the north, Heaton Chapel to the east and Didsbury and Heaton Mersey to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burnage

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
    Manchester Metrolink

    Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.

    2.8 km · light rail and tram system in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Didsbury Mosque

    Didsbury Mosque is on Burton Road in Didsbury, Manchester, England. The building was originally Albert Park Methodist Chapel, which opened in 1883, but closed in 1962 and was later converted into a mosque.

    2.4 km · mosque in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fallowfield Stadium

    Fallowfield Stadium was an athletics stadium and velodrome in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. It opened in May 1892 as the home of Manchester Athletics Club after it was forced to move from its home next to Old Trafford Cricket Ground.

    1.9 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Manchester Central Mosque

    Manchester Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre is a mosque in Manchester, England. Sometimes referred to as Jamia Mosque, it is situated in the middle of Victoria Park, Manchester close to the Curry Mile.

    3.4 km · mosque in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Platt Fields Park

    Platt Fields Park is a large public park in Fallowfield, Manchester, England which is home to Platt Hall. Fallowfield lies to the south and Wilmslow Road runs along its eastern edge.

    2.7 km · public park in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    South Manchester Synagogue

    The South Manchester Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish community and synagogue, located in Bowdon, Altrincham, South Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation was formed in 1872 and worships in the Ashkenazi rite.

    2 km · grade II listed synagogue in Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    3.4 km · church in Reddish, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden

    Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden is a public park in Didsbury, Manchester, England, between the River Mersey and Stenner Woods. The park is named after Alderman Fletcher Moss, who donated the park to the city of Manchester in 1915.

    2.3 km · Botanical garden in Didsbury, Manchester · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Garrick Theatre

    Garrick Theatre is a theatre in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, founded in 1901. In 1904 it obtained its own premises in Cobden Place, Wellington Street.

    3.8 km · theatre in Stockport, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Joseph's Church, Stockport

    St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It was built from 1861 to 1862 and designed by Matthew Ellison Hadfield.

    4 km · church building in Stockport, 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.

Go there

Getting to Burnage

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 10 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 61 km
Stations
Stockport railway station, 3.9 km · East Didsbury railway station, 2 km · Gatley railway station, 3.9 km · Burnage railway station, 500 m · Levenshulme railway station, 2.4 km
  • Liverpool → Burnage
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Burnage
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Burnage
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £10–13
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burnage

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 Burnage. 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

    301 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    311 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    340 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    366 km

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

Around it

Next door to Burnage

Burnage is 6 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Didsburyarea of the City of Manchester, England1.9 km
  • Moss Sideinner-city area of Manchester, England3.9 km
  • Cheadlesuburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England3.6 km
  • Rusholmearea of Manchester, England3.3 km
  • Fallowfieldsuburb of the city of Manchester, England1.9 km
  • Longsightinner city area of Manchester3.4 km