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Hollinwood

Hollinwood is an area and electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

The place

Hollinwood is an area and electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,920.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hollinwood

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
    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.

    4 km · football stadium and cricket field in Newton Heath, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.4 km · football ground in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gallery Oldham

    Gallery Oldham is a free-to-view public museum and art gallery in the Cultural Quarter of central Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

    3.4 km · art gallery in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church, Oldham

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church or St Patrick's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It was founded in 1858 and was built in 1870.

    2.8 km · catholic church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Newton Heath and Moston tram stop

    Newton Heath and Moston is a Manchester Metrolink tram stop in Newton Heath, Manchester. It is on the Oldham and Rochdale Line and in both fare zones 2 and 3.

    3.1 km · light rail stop in Manchester · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fairbottom Branch Canal

    The Fairbottom Branch Canal was a canal near Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, England.

    2 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Parish Church of St Mary with St Peter, Oldham

    The Church of St Mary with St Peter, commonly known as Oldham Parish Church, is the Church of England parish church of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It forms part of the Diocese of Manchester, and is a grade II* listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Wilfrid and St Ann's Church, Newton Heath

    St Wilfrid and St Ann's Church is in Oldham Road, Newton Heath, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church, which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    2.3 km · church in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Westwood Mosque

    Westwood Mosque is a mosque located in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Plans to establish the centre began in 1990, when property was acquired on Chadderton Way, prior moving to the Compass House in 2010.

    3 km · mosque in Oldham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Oldham

    Shree Swaminarayan Mandir, Oldham is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple in Oldham, England. It became the third Swaminarayan temple to open in the United Kingdom under the NarNarayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday on 22 October 1977.

    2.4 km · Hindu temple in the 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 Hollinwood

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 21 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 50 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 51 km
Stations
Moston railway station, 1.9 km · Oldham Werneth railway station, 2.5 km · Oldham Mumps tram stop, 3.8 km · Hollinwood tram stop, 300 m · Westwood tram stop, 2.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hollinwood
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £6–7
  • Liverpool → Hollinwood
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hollinwood
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hollinwood

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 Hollinwood. 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

    299 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    312 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

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    361 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hollinwood

Hollinwood is 7 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Oldhamtown in Greater Manchester, England3.4 km
  • Chaddertontown within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England3.1 km
  • Failsworthtown in Oldham, Greater Manchester1.3 km
  • Newton Heathurban area of the city of Manchester, England3.3 km
  • Mostondistrict of Manchester, England2.7 km
  • Littlemossvillage in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, UK3 km