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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.

  1. 01
    Altrincham

    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
  2. 02
    Moss 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
  3. 03
    Watch 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
  4. 04
    Royd 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
  5. 05
    St 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
  6. 06
    Church 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
  7. 07
    Ullerwood 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
  8. 08
    Hale 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
  9. 09
    St 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
  10. 10
    Church 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

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 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 → Hale
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hale
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Hale
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    292 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    340 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    365 km

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

Around it

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