Fallowfield
Fallowfield is an area of Manchester which had a population of 14,869 at the 2021 census.
Fallowfield is an area of Manchester which had a population of 14,869 at the 2021 census. Historically in Lancashire, it lies 3 miles (5 km) south of Manchester city centre and is bisected east–west by Wilbraham Road and north–south by Wilmslow Road. The former Fallowfield Loop railway line, now a shared use path, follows a route nearly parallel with the east–west main road.
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Worth seeing in and around Fallowfield
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.
- 01University 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.
2.8 km · public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Manchester Metrolink
Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.
3.5 km · light rail and tram system in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 03Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992.
3.4 km · university in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia - 04Manchester 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.
2.9 km · natural history museum · Wikipedia - 05Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College.
2.9 km · British university (1851-2004) · Wikipedia - 06University of Manchester Library
The University of Manchester Library is the library system and information service of the University of Manchester. The main library is on the Oxford Road campus of the university, with its entrance on Burlington Street.
2.7 km · University of Manchester's library and information service · Wikipedia - 07Royal Northern College of Music
The Royal Northern College of Music is a conservatoire in Manchester, England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
3.1 km · college in Manchester, UK (1973-) · Wikipedia - 08Alan Turing Memorial
The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have taken his own life in 1954, two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e.
4 km · memorial in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 09Didsbury Mosque
Didsbury Mosque is on Burton Road in Didsbury, Manchester, England. The building was originally Albert Park Methodist Chapel, which opened in 1883, but closed in 1962 and was later converted into a mosque.
2.9 km · mosque in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 10Fallowfield Stadium
Fallowfield Stadium was an athletics stadium and velodrome in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. It opened in May 1892 as the home of Manchester Athletics Club after it was forced to move from its home next to Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
200 m · football stadium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fallowfield
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 11 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 60 km
- Stations
- Manchester Piccadilly station, 3.9 km · Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 3.8 km · Ashburys railway station, 3.6 km · Ardwick railway station, 3.2 km · East Didsbury railway station, 3.7 km
- Liverpool → Fallowfield51 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Fallowfield59 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Fallowfield89 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £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 Fallowfield
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 Fallowfield. 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 Fallowfield
Fallowfield is 4 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Didsburyarea of the City of Manchester, England3 km
- Moss Sideinner-city area of Manchester, England2.1 km
- Chorlton-cum-Hardysuburban area of the city of Manchester, England3.9 km
- Rusholmearea of Manchester, England1.4 km
- Burnagesuburb of the city of Manchester in North West England1.9 km
- Longsightinner city area of Manchester1.9 km