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Partington

Partington is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

Partington
Partington · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Partington is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is sited ten miles (16 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, it lies on the southern bank of the Manchester Ship Canal, opposite Cadishead on the northern bank. In 2001 it had a population of 7,327.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Partington

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
    Bridgewater Canal

    The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.

    5 km · canal in North West England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trafford Training Centre

    Trafford Training Centre is the training ground and academy headquarters of English football club Manchester United. It is near the village of Carrington, Greater Manchester, England, and replaced The Cliff as the club's training ground in 2000.

    3.7 km · football training ground in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dunham Castle

    Dunham Castle is an early medieval castle in Dunham Massey, a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

    4.5 km · castle in Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dunham Massey Hall

    Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey, in the district of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. During World War I, it was temporarily used as the Stamford Military Hospital.

    4.6 km · Grade I listed building in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church, Lymm

    St Mary's Church is the Anglican parish church of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, standing on a bank overlooking Lymm Dam. It is a grade II listed building.

    5.7 km · grade II listed church in Lymm, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Carrington Training Centre

    Carrington Training Centre, sometimes referred to as Carrington, was the training ground of EFL League Two club Bury, leased from Manchester City. The League Two club moved into this complex in early 2015 when previous holders Manchester City moved into a new £50 million training facility close to its Sportcity home in east Manchester.

    4 km · football training ground in England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Martin's Church, Ashton upon Mersey

    St Martin's Church is in Church Lane, Ashton upon Mersey, a district of Sale, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    5.9 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St George's Church, Carrington

    St George's Church is in the village of Carrington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, but is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.7 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lymm Baptist Church

    Lymm Baptist Church is a Baptist church situated in the village of Lymm near Warrington, Cheshire, England. It stands on the A56 road.

    5.6 km · church building in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Lymm Cross

    Lymm Cross is in the village of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    5.4 km · Grade I listed building in Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · 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 Partington

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 13 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 29 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 71 km
Stations
Irlam railway station, 1.6 km · Chassen Road railway station, 5 km · Flixton railway station, 4.1 km · Urmston railway station, 6 km · Glazebrook railway station, 2.2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Partington
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Partington
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Partington
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Partington

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 Partington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    292 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    313 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    358 km

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

Around it

Next door to Partington

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

  • Lymmvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, United Kingdom5 km
  • Irlamsuburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England3.2 km
  • Urmstontown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England4.9 km
  • Carringtonvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England2.8 km
  • Warburtonvillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.5 km
  • Dunham Masseycivil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England4.9 km