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Miles Platting

Miles Platting is an inner city part of Manchester, England, 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northeast of Manchester city centre along the

Miles Platting
Miles Platting · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Miles Platting is an inner city part of Manchester, England, 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northeast of Manchester city centre along the

Rochdale Canal and A62 road, bounded by Monsall to the north, Collyhurst to the west, Newton Heath to the east, and Bradford, Holt Town and Ancoats to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Miles Platting

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 16 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 45 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 56 km
  • Liverpool → Miles Platting
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Miles Platting
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Miles Platting
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £11–14
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Miles Platting

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 Miles Platting. 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

    306 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    318 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    334 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    360 km

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

Around it

Next door to Miles Platting

Miles Platting is 2 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.