Droylsden
Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Manchester city centre, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689.

Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Manchester city centre, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689.
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Worth seeing in and around Droylsden
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.
- 01Etihad Stadium
The Etihad Stadium is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 61,038, making it the 6th-largest football stadium in England and 8th-largest stadium in the United Kingdom. Built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the stadium has since staged the 2008 UEFA Cup final, England football internationals, rugby league matches, a boxing world title fight, the England rugby union team's final group match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup and summer music concerts during the football off-season.
2.8 km · stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 02University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.
5.2 km · public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Manchester Arena
Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space. With a capacity of 23,000 it is the second largest indoor arena in the UK after Co-op Live and third largest in Europe.
5.7 km · event arena in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 04Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992.
5.6 km · university in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia - 05Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne, also known as Ashton, is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Its population was 48,604 at the 2021 census.
4 km · market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 06English Football Hall of Fame
The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum in Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players and managers who have become significant figures in the history of the English game.
5.6 km · hall of fame in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 07Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry.
5.5 km · publicly owned art gallery in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia - 08Manchester Cathedral
Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.
5.7 km · church of England cathedral in Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent.
5.4 km · natural history museum · Wikipedia - 10North Road
North Road was a football and cricket ground in Newton Heath, Manchester, England. It was the first home of Manchester United Football Club – then known as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club – from its foundation in 1878 until 1893, when the club moved to a new ground at Bank Street, Clayton.
3.5 km · football stadium and cricket field in Newton Heath, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Droylsden
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 17 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 49 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 54 km
- Stations
- Manchester Piccadilly station, 4.8 km · Manchester Victoria station, 5.7 km · Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 5.6 km · Ashburys railway station, 2.7 km
- Liverpool → Droylsden56 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Droylsden53 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Droylsden88 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Droylsden
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 Droylsden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.
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Next door to Droylsden
Droylsden is 5 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Manchestercity in Greater Manchester, England5.8 km
- Tamesidemetropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England4.3 km
- Dukinfieldtown in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England5.1 km
- Dentontown in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England4.3 km
- Failsworthtown in Oldham, Greater Manchester3 km
- Newton Heathurban area of the city of Manchester, England2.5 km