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 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.
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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.
- 01Etihad 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 - 02Bank 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 - 03North 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 - 04Academy 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 - 05Broadhurst 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 - 06Manchester 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 - 07Co-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 - 08B 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 - 09Manchester 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 - 10Museum 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
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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 Heath43 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Newton Heath53 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Newton Heath92 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–15
- 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 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.
- Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.
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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