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Newton Heath

Newton Heath is an area of Manchester, England, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) north-east of Manchester city centre and with a population of 9,883.

Newton Heath
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The place

Newton Heath is an area of Manchester, England, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) north-east of Manchester city centre and with a population of 9,883.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Newton Heath

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.

    2.2 km · stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.7 km · multi-purpose stadium in Clayton, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    1.1 km · football stadium and cricket field in Newton Heath, Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.2 km · football stadium in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.9 km · football ground in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Manchester Velodrome

    Manchester Velodrome is an indoor Olympic-standard cycle-racing track in Manchester, England, which opened in 1994. Part of the National Cycling Centre, the facility has been home to British Cycling since 1994, coinciding with the nation's rise to track cycling dominance at World and Olympic level.

    1.7 km · event arena · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Co-op Live

    Co-op Live is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, sited in the Etihad Campus next to the City of Manchester Stadium. It opened on 14 May 2024 and is the largest indoor arena in the United Kingdom by capacity.

    1.9 km · indoor arena in Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    B of the Bang

    B of the Bang was a sculpture by Thomas Heatherwick next to the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, England, commissioned to mark the 2002 Commonwealth Games. At 56 metres it was one of the tallest structures in Manchester and the tallest sculpture in the UK until the completion of Aspire in 2008.

    2.2 km · sculpture by Thomas Heatherwick · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Manchester Jewish Museum

    The Manchester Jewish Museum is a Jewish history museum, located on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, England. The museum occupies the site of a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, the place of worship for the Congregation of Spanish & Portuguese Jews, called the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, also the Sha'are Tephillah Synagogue.

    3.6 km · museum in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester

    The Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester aims to preserve and promote the public transport heritage of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is located in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester.

    3.3 km · museum in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Newton Heath

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 18 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 53 km
Stations
Ashburys railway station, 3.2 km · Ardwick railway station, 3.8 km · Gorton railway station, 3.6 km · Hollinwood tram stop, 3.3 km · Moston railway station, 2.7 km
  • Liverpool → Newton Heath
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Newton Heath
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Newton Heath
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Newton Heath

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 Newton Heath. 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

    309 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

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    361 km

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

Around it

Next door to Newton Heath

Newton Heath is 4 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Failsworthtown in Oldham, Greater Manchester2.1 km
  • Droylsdentown in Tameside, England, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Claytonsuburb of the city of Manchester, in North West England1.7 km
  • Ardwickdistrict of Manchester, England3.8 km
  • Harpurheyinner-city area of Manchester, England1.8 km
  • Beswickarea of the city of Manchester, England3.1 km