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Harpurhey

Harpurhey is an inner-city suburb of Manchester, England, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northeast of the city centre.

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The place

Harpurhey is an inner-city suburb of Manchester, England, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northeast of the city centre. Historically in Lancashire, the population at the 2011 census was 17,652.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Harpurhey

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
    Etihad Stadium

    The Etihad Stadium is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 61,038, making it the 6th-largest football stadium in England and 8th-largest stadium in the United Kingdom. Built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the stadium has since staged the 2008 UEFA Cup final, England football internationals, rugby league matches, a boxing world title fight, the England rugby union team's final group match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup and summer music concerts during the football off-season.

    3.1 km · stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Manchester Arena

    Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space. With a capacity of 23,000 it is the second largest indoor arena in the UK after Co-op Live and third largest in Europe.

    3.3 km · event arena in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    English Football Hall of Fame

    The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum in Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players and managers who have become significant figures in the history of the English game.

    3.4 km · hall of fame in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Manchester Cathedral

    Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.

    3.6 km · church of England cathedral in Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bank Street

    Bank Street, also known as Bank Lane, was a multi-purpose stadium in Clayton, Manchester, England. It was mostly used for football matches and was the second home ground of Manchester United Football Club, after North Road, which they left in 1893.

    3.1 km · multi-purpose stadium in Clayton, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    North Road

    North Road was a football and cricket ground in Newton Heath, Manchester, England. It was the first home of Manchester United Football Club – then known as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club – from its foundation in 1878 until 1893, when the club moved to a new ground at Bank Street, Clayton.

    1 km · football stadium and cricket field in Newton Heath, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chetham's Library

    Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham, for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents", and a library for the use of scholars.

    3.5 km · library and museum in Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Academy Stadium

    The Academy Stadium is a football stadium in Manchester, England, forming part of the Etihad Campus. In September 2023, the ground was renamed Joie Stadium for sponsorship reasons.

    3.4 km · football stadium in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National Football Museum

    The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football. It is based in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre, and preserves, conserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia.

    3.4 km · sports museum in Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Broadhurst Park

    Broadhurst Park is a football ground in Moston, Manchester, England. It is the home of F.C. United of Manchester and Moston Juniors F.C. The ground was known by its project name, Moston Community Stadium, before being changed at a members' meeting in 2014.

    2.1 km · football ground in Manchester, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Harpurhey

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 18 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 54 km
Stations
Manchester Piccadilly station, 3.9 km · Manchester Victoria station, 3.4 km · Moston railway station, 3 km · Central Park tram stop, 1.2 km · Monsall tram stop, 1 km
  • Liverpool → Harpurhey
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Harpurhey
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Harpurhey
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Harpurhey

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 Harpurhey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.

From Wikivoyage: Manchester, 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

    297 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    320 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    333 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Harpurhey

Harpurhey is 4 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Failsworthtown in Oldham, Greater Manchester3.5 km
  • Newton Heathurban area of the city of Manchester, England2.1 km
  • Claytonsuburb of the city of Manchester, in North West England3.5 km
  • Beswickarea of the city of Manchester, England4 km
  • Ancoatsinner city area of Manchester, in North West England3.2 km
  • Blackleyarea of the city of Manchester, England1.6 km