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Town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England · United Kingdom

Mossley

Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Oldham and 9 miles (14.5 km) east of Manchester.

Mossley
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The place

Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Oldham and 9 miles (14.5 km) east of Manchester.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mossley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 24 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 46 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Mossley
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Mossley
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Mossley
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–15
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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 Mossley

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 Mossley. 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

    304 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    315 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

    339 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    366 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mossley

Mossley is 14 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.