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Northenden

Northenden is a suburb of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England.

Northenden
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The place

Northenden is a suburb of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 15,064 at the 2021 census. It lies on the south side of the river Mersey, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Stockport and 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Manchester city centre, bounded by Didsbury to the north, Gatley to the east, Sale to the west and Wythenshawe to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northenden

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
    Manchester Metrolink

    Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.

    1.2 km · light rail and tram system in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Didsbury Mosque

    Didsbury Mosque is on Burton Road in Didsbury, Manchester, England. The building was originally Albert Park Methodist Chapel, which opened in 1883, but closed in 1962 and was later converted into a mosque.

    1.9 km · mosque in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chorltonville

    Chorltonville is a garden village in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. The village includes architecture inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement.

    3.3 km · garden village in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Southern Cemetery

    Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, 3 miles south of the city centre. It opened in 1879 and is owned and administered by Manchester City Council.

    2.4 km · cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Park Road Stadium

    The Ground Up Solutions Stadium is an association football stadium in Cheadle, Stockport, England. It is the home ground of North West Counties Football League club Cheadle Town F.C. and FA Women's National League club Cheadle Town Stingers.

    4 km · football stadium in Cheadle, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Abney Hall

    Abney Hall is a Grade II* listed Victorian house on Manchester Road in Cheadle, a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1842 and 1847 and extensively remodelled in the mid and late 19th century, it later became a civic building and now serves as offices within a public park.

    3.2 km · building in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden

    Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden is a public park in Didsbury, Manchester, England, between the River Mersey and Stenner Woods. The park is named after Alderman Fletcher Moss, who donated the park to the city of Manchester in 1915.

    1.8 km · Botanical garden in Didsbury, Manchester · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    William Temple Memorial Church

    William Temple Memorial Church is a parish church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, dedicated to the bishop William Temple. It is a Grade II listed building, designed by George Pace in the Modernist style, and built in 1964–1965.

    3.3 km · church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Baguley Hall

    Baguley Hall is a 14th-century timber-framed building in Baguley, Greater Manchester, England. A former country house, historically in Cheshire, it is now Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    1.9 km · 14th-century timber-framed hall in Baguley, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Fog Lane Park

    Fog Lane Park is a public urban park located in the Withington and Didsbury areas of Manchester, England. The park offers a variety of recreational facilities.

    3 km · urban park in Withington and Didsbury, Manchester · 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 Northenden

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 7 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 40 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 64 km
Stations
Burnage railway station, 3.3 km · Gatley railway station, 2.4 km · East Didsbury railway station, 2.4 km · West Didsbury tram stop, 2.4 km · Didsbury Village tram stop, 2.2 km
  • Liverpool → Northenden
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Northenden
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Northenden
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Northenden

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 Northenden. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    297 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    309 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    340 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    366 km

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

Around it

Next door to Northenden

Northenden is 8 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Didsburyarea of the City of Manchester, England1.8 km
  • Cheadlesuburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England3.5 km
  • Burnagesuburb of the city of Manchester in North West England3.8 km
  • Withingtonsuburb of Manchester, England3.5 km
  • Baguleysmall locality in Wythenshawe in Manchester, England1.5 km
  • Manchestermetropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England1.2 km