Golborne
Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south-south-east of Wigan, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Warrington and 14 miles (22.5 km) to the west of the city of Manchester. Along with the neighbouring village of Lowton, it recorded a population of 24,041.
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Worth seeing in and around Golborne
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.
- 01Leigh Sports Village
Leigh Sports Village is a multi-use sports, retail and housing development in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The centrepiece of the development is a 12,000-capacity stadium which is home to professional rugby league team Leigh Leopards, the Manchester United Women's senior team, and Manchester United's men's Under-21 and Academy teams.
4.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 02St Oswald's Church, Winwick
St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
5 km · church in Winwick, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Sankey Viaduct
The Sankey Viaduct is a railway viaduct in Newton-le-Willows in North West England. The majority of the viaduct is located within the borough of St Helens, Merseyside, with approximately a third to west of Sankey Brook being located within the borough of Warrington, Cheshire.
4.9 km · grade I listed railway viaduct in Cheshire/Merseyside, England · Wikipedia - 04Christ Church, Croft
Christ Church is in Lady Lane, Croft, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Winwick, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.
5.4 km · church in Croft, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Catholic Church of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith
The Catholic Church of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith is a Roman Catholic parish church located on Liverpool Road in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, England, which is a Grade II-listed building and includes the Diocesan Shrine of St Edmund Arrowsmith.
3.3 km · Roman Catholic diocesan shrine and parish church in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is a member of the Salford & Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford, diocese of Manchester.
5.5 km · church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Culcheth Linear Park
Culcheth Linear Park is a park in the district of Culcheth, Warrington, England. Like the Black Bear Park and sections of the Trans Pennine Trail, Culcheth Linear Park is built on former railway tracks.
5.1 km · park in the district of Culcheth, Warrington, England · Wikipedia - 08Abram Council Offices
Abram Council Offices is a municipal building in Warrington Road, Abram, Greater Manchester, England. The building is currently used as private apartments.
3.8 km · municipal building in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Christ Church, Pennington
Christ Church is an active Anglican parish church in Pennington, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. Christ Church serves the parish of Pennington in the Leigh Deanery and Salford Archdeaconry in the Diocese of Manchester.
5.1 km · church in Pennington, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Pennington Flash Country Park
Pennington Flash Country Park is a 200-hectare country park located between Lowton and Leigh in Greater Manchester, England.
3.3 km · park in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom; surroundings of lake formed by mining subsidence frequented by birdwatchers · Wikipedia
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Getting to Golborne
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 23 km · Manchester (MAN), 25 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 75 km
- Stations
- Earlestown railway station, 4 km · Newton-le-Willows railway station, 2.9 km · Bryn railway station, 4.4 km · Garswood railway station, 5.3 km · Platt Bridge railway station, 5.3 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Golborne78 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Golborne112 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–18
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Golborne120 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
- 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 Golborne
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 Golborne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Manchester Airport a direct train runs hourly, taking 50 min via Manchester city centre and Newton-le-Willows, and continues to Runcorn, Chester, and along the north Welsh coast to Llandudno Junction, for Holyhead and ferries to Ireland.
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Next door to Golborne
Golborne is 24 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leightown in Greater Manchester, England, UK5.8 km
- Newton-le-Willowstown in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK3.8 km
- Croftvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK5.1 km
- Winwickvillage and civil parish in Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom5.1 km
- Ashton-in-Makerfieldtown in Wigan, Greater Manchester, UK3.3 km
- Culchethvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK5.5 km