Eccles

Worth seeing in and around Eccles

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
   Old Trafford

   Football stadium in Manchester, England

   3.6 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Barton Swing Aqueduct

   Navigable aqueduct

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Imperial War Museum North

   Military museum in Manchester, England

   2.7 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Trafford Centre

   Shopping mall and entertainment complex in Dumplington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England

   2 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   All Saints' Church, Urmston

   Church in Trafford, UK

   1.7 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Barton Aqueduct

   Aqueduct

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   The Lowry

   Arts centre and museum in Salford, England, United Kingdom

   2.8 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eccles

   Grade I listed church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

   100 m · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Lancashire Mining Museum

   Mining museum in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St. Augustine's Church, Pendlebury

    Grade I listed church in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK

    3.1 km · 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.

Getting to Eccles

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 61 km

Stations

Manchester City Airport & Heliport, 4 km · Eccles railway station, 200 m · Trafford Park railway station, 3.5 km · Salford Crescent railway station, 3.8 km · Patricroft railway station, 1.6 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Eccles

  62 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £7–9
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Eccles

  98 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £11–15
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Eccles

  115 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Eccles

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 Eccles. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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