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Chorlton

Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of Manchester, England, three miles (4.8 km) southwest of the city centre.

Chorlton
Chorlton · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of Manchester, England, three miles (4.8 km) southwest of the city centre. Chorlton ward had a population of 14,138 at the 2011 census, and Chorlton Park 15,147.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Chorlton

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 10 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 40 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chorlton
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £13–17
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chorlton
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chorlton
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chorlton

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 Chorlton. 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

    300 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    313 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    336 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    362 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chorlton

Chorlton is 5 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.