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Golborne

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

Golborne
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Leigh 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
  2. 02
    St 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
  3. 03
    Sankey 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
  4. 04
    Christ 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
  5. 05
    Catholic 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
  6. 06
    St 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
  7. 07
    Culcheth 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
  8. 08
    Abram 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
  9. 09
    Christ 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
  10. 10
    Pennington 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

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.

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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 → Golborne
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Golborne
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–18
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Golborne
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Warrington, 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

    285 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    292 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    321 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    322 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    346 km

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

Around it

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