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Chadderton

Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal.

Chadderton
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The place

Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Oldham, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Rochdale and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Manchester. The town is near the A627(M) motorway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chadderton

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
    Boundary Park

    Boundary Park is a football stadium in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Its name originates from the fact that it lies at the northwestern extremity of Oldham, with Royton and Chadderton lying immediately north and west respectively.

    1.4 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadhurst Park

    Broadhurst Park is a football ground in Moston, Manchester, England. It is the home of F.C. United of Manchester and Moston Juniors F.C. The ground was known by its project name, Moston Community Stadium, before being changed at a members' meeting in 2014.

    4.1 km · football ground in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gallery Oldham

    Gallery Oldham is a free-to-view public museum and art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

    2.3 km · art gallery in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Newton Heath and Moston tram stop

    Newton Heath and Moston is a Manchester Metrolink tram stop in Newton Heath, Manchester. It is on the Oldham and Rochdale Line and in both fare zones 2 and 3.

    5.4 km · light rail stop in Manchester · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Wilfrid and St Ann's Church, Newton Heath

    St Wilfrid and St Ann's Church is in Oldham Road, Newton Heath, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church, which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    4.9 km · church in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fairbottom Branch Canal

    The Fairbottom Branch Canal was a canal near Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, England.

    4.7 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton

    The Parish Church of St. Matthew is the Church of England parish church for Chadderton in Greater Manchester, England.

    1.3 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Parish Church of St Mary with St Peter, Oldham

    The Church of St Mary with St Peter, commonly known as Oldham Parish Church, is the Church of England parish church of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It forms part of the Diocese of Manchester, and is a grade II* listed building.

    2.1 km · church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church, Oldham

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church or St Patrick's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It was founded in 1858 and was built in 1870.

    1.7 km · catholic church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St James' Church, Oldham

    St James' Church is in Barry Street, Greenacres Moor, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Oldham East, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.1 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, 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 Chadderton

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 24 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 52 km
Stations
Castleton railway station, 5.6 km · Oldham Mumps tram stop, 2.6 km · Oldham Werneth railway station, 1.3 km · Mills Hill railway station, 2 km · Hollinwood tram stop, 2.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chadderton
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Chadderton
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chadderton
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chadderton

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 Chadderton. 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
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    297 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    323 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chadderton

Chadderton is 10 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Oldhamtown in Greater Manchester, England1.6 km
  • Middletontown in Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England3.2 km
  • Failsworthtown in Oldham, Greater Manchester4.1 km
  • Newton Heathurban area of the city of Manchester, England5.8 km
  • Roytontown in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.6 km
  • Shaw and Cromptoncivil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England4.8 km