Irlam
Irlam is a suburb in the City of Salford, Manchester, England.
Irlam is a suburb in the City of Salford, Manchester, England. In 2011, it had a population of 19,933. It lies on flat ground on the south side of the M62 motorway and the north bank of the Manchester Ship Canal, 6.7 miles (10.8 km) southwest of Salford, 7.6 miles (12.2 km) southwest of Manchester and 8.3 miles (13.4 km) northeast of Warrington. Irlam forms a continuous urban area with Cadishead to the southwest, and is divided from Flixton and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford to the southeast by the Manchester Ship Canal. The main road through Irlam, linking it to Cadishead and Eccles, is the A57. Irlam railway station also serves the district.
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Worth seeing in and around Irlam
5 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.
- 01Carrington Training Centre
Carrington Training Centre, sometimes referred to as Carrington, was the training ground of EFL League Two club Bury, leased from Manchester City. The League Two club moved into this complex in early 2015 when previous holders Manchester City moved into a new £50 million training facility close to its Sportcity home in east Manchester.
3.7 km · football training ground in England · Wikipedia - 02St George's Church, Carrington
St George's Church is in the village of Carrington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, but is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.8 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Michael's Church
St Michael's Church, Flixton, is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish church situated in Flixton, Greater Manchester, within the Diocese of Manchester. Historically, the parish also encompassed Urmston.
2.7 km · church in Flixton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cadishead Viaduct
Cadishead Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct of multi-lattice girder construction. It was built in 1892 by the Cheshire Lines Committee to clear the newly built Manchester Ship Canal to carry the new deviation of the Glazebrook to Woodley Main Line.
2.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Flixton House
Flixton House was built in 1806 by the Wright family, who had become wealthy land owners in Flixton. It is a Queen Anne revival style country house, in Flemish bond brick, with neo-classical portico and fanlight.
2.6 km · building in Flixton,Trafford · Wikipedia
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Getting to Irlam
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 14 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 31 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 69 km
- Stations
- Manchester City Airport & Heliport, 3.7 km · Irlam railway station, 1.4 km · Glazebrook railway station, 3.1 km · Chassen Road railway station, 3.6 km · Flixton railway station, 2.6 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Irlam70 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Irlam101 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–18
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Irlam112 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
- 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 Irlam
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 Irlam. 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 Irlam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Irlam
Irlam is 13 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Partingtontown and civil parish in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Urmstontown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England3.2 km
- Carringtonvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England2.5 km
- Chat Mosspeat bog in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England2.1 km
- Cadisheadtown in Greater Manchester, UK2.2 km
- Rixton-with-Glazebrookcivil parish in Warrington, Cheshire, England3 km