Longsight

Worth seeing in and around Longsight

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 km · stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   University of Manchester

   The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.

   2.4 km · public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Manchester Metropolitan University

   Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992.

   3.1 km · university in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Manchester Art Gallery

   Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry.

   3.7 km · publicly owned art gallery in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Manchester Museum

   Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent.

   2.6 km · natural history museum · Wikipedia
6. 06
   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.

   3.3 km · multi-purpose stadium in Clayton, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Beetham Tower

   Beetham Tower is a 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, England. Completed in 2006, it is named after its developers, the Beetham Organisation, and was designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners.

   4 km · skyscraper in Manchester, England · 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.

   2.8 km · football stadium in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Manchester Town Hall

   Manchester Town Hall is a Victorian, neo-Gothic municipal building in Manchester, England. It is the ceremonial headquarters of Manchester City Council and houses a number of local government departments.

   3.9 km · municipal building in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Victoria University of Manchester

    The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College.

    2.5 km · British university (1851-2004) · 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.

Getting to Longsight

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 13 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 45 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km

Stations

Manchester Piccadilly station, 3.1 km · Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 3.4 km · Ashburys railway station, 1.8 km · Deansgate railway station, 3.9 km · Ardwick railway station, 1.9 km

• Liverpool → Longsight

  52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
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• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Longsight

  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Longsight

  90 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £10–14
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