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Peel Green

Peel Green is a suburb at the western end of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire.

Peel Green
Peel Green · Jules Verne Times Two
The place

Peel Green is a suburb at the western end of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Peel Green

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
    Barton Swing Aqueduct

    The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a moveable navigable aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell, Greater Manchester, England. It carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal.

    2.1 km · navigable aqueduct · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trafford Centre

    The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre and entertainment complex in Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in 1998 and attracted 23.5 million visitors in 2025.

    2.4 km · shopping mall and entertainment complex in Dumplington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Urmston

    All Saints' Church is a Roman Catholic parish church situated between Dumplington and Barton upon Irwell, near Urmston, in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The church was constructed between 1867 and 1868 and was designed by E. W. Pugin in the Gothic Revival style for Sir Humphrey de Trafford.

    2.1 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Barton Aqueduct

    The Barton Aqueduct, opened on 17 July 1761, carried the Bridgewater Canal over the River Irwell at Barton-upon-Irwell, in the historic county of Lancashire, England. Designed largely by James Brindley under the direction of John Gilbert, it was the first navigable aqueduct to be built in England, "one of the seven wonders of the canal age" according to industrial archaeologist Mike Nevell.

    2.1 km · aqueduct · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eccles

    St Mary the Virgin's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The church is in the Eccles deanery, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    RHS Garden Bridgewater

    RHS Garden Bridgewater is the Royal Horticultural Society's fifth public display garden. It is located in the village of Worsley in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

    3.1 km · public garden in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mark's Church, Worsley

    St Mark's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Worsley, Greater Manchester, England. It is part of a team ministry along with St Mary's in Ellenbrook and St Andrew in Boothstown.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Michael's Church

    St Michael's Church, Flixton, is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish church situated in Flixton, Greater Manchester, within the Diocese of Manchester. Historically, the parish also encompassed Urmston.

    3.5 km · church in Flixton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Flixton House

    Flixton House was built in 1806 by the Wright family, who had become wealthy land owners in Flixton. It is a Queen Anne revival style country house, in Flemish bond brick, with neo-classical portico and fanlight.

    3.1 km · building in Flixton,Trafford · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Eccles Town Hall

    Eccles Town Hall is a municipal building in Church Street, Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall was the headquarters of Eccles Borough Council until the council was abolished in 1974.

    3.2 km · town hall in Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, England · 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.

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Getting to Peel Green

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 34 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 65 km
Stations
Manchester City Airport & Heliport, 400 m · Eccles railway station, 3.5 km · Chassen Road railway station, 3.2 km · Flixton railway station, 3.3 km · Urmston railway station, 3.4 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Peel Green
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Peel Green
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Peel Green
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Peel Green

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 Peel Green. 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

    294 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    299 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

    329 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    355 km

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

Around it

Next door to Peel Green

Peel Green is 10 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ecclestown in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England3.2 km
  • Irlamsuburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England3.5 km
  • Urmstontown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England2.8 km
  • Trafford Parkarea of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England3.9 km
  • Chat Mosspeat bog in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England3.3 km
  • Davyhulmetown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom2.2 km