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Cowhill, Greater Manchester

Cowhill is a locality of Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

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

Cowhill is a locality of Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cowhill, 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
    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.

    1.9 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.

    3.7 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.

    1.9 km · art gallery in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    1.8 km · church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.3 km · catholic church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.9 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fairbottom Branch Canal

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

    3.8 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton

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

    2.2 km · grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Failsworth Town Hall

    Failsworth Town Hall, also known as Failsworth and Hollinwood District Town Hall, is a former municipal building on Oldham Road, Failsworth, a town in Greater Manchester in England. The building, which served as the offices and meeting place of Failsworth Urban District Council, now accommodates a library, a lifelong learning centre, the current council's support and housing team, and some charities.

    3.5 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Michael's Church, Middleton

    St Michael's Church is in Townley Street, Middleton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Heywood and Middleton, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.6 km · grade II listed church in Rochdale, 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 Cowhill, Greater Manchester

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 23 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 52 km
Stations
Moston railway station, 2.8 km · Oldham Mumps tram stop, 2.3 km · Oldham Werneth railway station, 700 m · Mills Hill railway station, 2.6 km · Hollinwood tram stop, 2.2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cowhill, Greater Manchester
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Cowhill, Greater Manchester
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cowhill, Greater Manchester
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cowhill, 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 Cowhill, 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 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

    298 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    322 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    333 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cowhill, Greater Manchester

Cowhill, Greater Manchester is 9 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Oldhamtown in Greater Manchester, England1.5 km
  • Chaddertontown within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England900 m
  • Middletontown in Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England3.7 km
  • Failsworthtown in Oldham, Greater Manchester3.4 km
  • Roytontown in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.2 km
  • Hollinwoodarea of Oldham in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England2.3 km