Hale
Worth seeing in and around Hale
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.
- 01Altrincham
Altrincham is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is located south of the River Mersey, 8 miles south-west of Manchester, 3 miles south-west of Sale and 10 miles east of Warrington.
1.6 km · market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 02Moss Lane
Moss Lane is a multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is currently used primarily for football matches and is the home ground of Altrincham.
600 m · multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 03Watch Hill Castle
Watch Hill Castle is a medieval motte-and-bailey on the boundary of Bowdon and Dunham Massey in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it is a scheduled monument.
3.3 km · medieval castle in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Royd House
Royd House is a Grade I listed building in Hale, Greater Manchester. It was designed by architect Edgar Wood as his own home and was built between 1914 and 1916.
400 m · Grade I listed building in Trafford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St George's Church, Altrincham
St George's Church is in the town of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
1.8 km · grade II listed church in Altrincham, Trafford, England · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is in the village and electoral ward of Bowdon near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
2.1 km · church in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Ullerwood Castle
Ullerwood Castle is an early medieval castle, possibly a shell keep, in Ringway, a civil parish on the southern border of Manchester, England. Twelfth-century historian Roger of Hodwen included Hamon de Masci in list of rebels against Henry II in 1173 and wrote that he held the castles of Ullerwood Dunham.
3.8 km · castle in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 08Hale Chapel
Hale Chapel is a Unitarian chapel in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, England. The chapel was built in 1723 and was originally a Presbyterian meeting house.
1.6 km · building in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Elizabeth's Church
St Elizabeth's Church is on Ashley Road in the village of Ashley, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Bowdon, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
2.6 km · grade II listed church in Ashley, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of St John the Divine, Brooklands
The Church of St John the Divine is a Church of England parish church in Brooklands, Sale, Greater Manchester. The church is a grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · church in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hale
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 5 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 35 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 70 km
- Stations
- Altrincham Interchange, 1.4 km · Navigation Road station, 2.1 km · Ashley railway station, 2.5 km · Hale railway station, 1 km · Baguley station, 3.4 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hale70 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hale92 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Hale104 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
- 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 Hale
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 Hale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.
From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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If you know how people move in Hale – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hale
Hale is 13 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ashleyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, UK2.7 km
- Bowdonvillage in Greater Manchester, UK2.2 km
- Timperleyvillage in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Brooklandselectoral ward of Manchester City Council3.9 km
- Dunham Townvillage in Trafford, Greater Manchester, UK4 km
- Broadheathtown in Greater Manchester, UK2.7 km