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

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.
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.
- 01Manchester 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 - 02Didsbury 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 - 03Chorltonville
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 - 04Southern 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 - 05Park 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 - 06Abney 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 - 07Fletcher 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 - 08William 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 - 09Baguley 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 - 10Fog 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
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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 → Northenden48 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Northenden64 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Northenden89 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
- 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 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.
- 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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If you know how people move in Northenden – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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