Prestwich

Worth seeing in and around Prestwich

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 Arena

   Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space. With a capacity of 23,000 it is the second largest indoor arena in the UK after Co-op Live and third largest in Europe.

   5.7 km · event arena in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   English Football Hall of Fame

   The English Football Hall of Fame is housed at the National Football Museum in Manchester, England. The Hall aims to celebrate and highlight the achievements of the all-time top English footballing talents, as well as non-English players and managers who have become significant figures in the history of the English game.

   5.9 km · hall of fame in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of Salford

   The University of Salford is a public research university located in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile west of Manchester city centre. The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status in 1967, following the Robbins Report into higher education.

   5.5 km · public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Manchester Cathedral

   Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.

   5.9 km · church of England cathedral in Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Gigg Lane

   Gigg Lane is a football ground in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, built for Bury F.C. in 1885. The first match was played on 12 September 1885 between Bury and a team from Wigan.

   5.3 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Chetham's Library

   Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham, for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents", and a library for the use of scholars.

   5.9 km · library and museum in Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   National Football Museum

   The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football. It is based in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre, and preserves, conserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia.

   5.9 km · sports museum in Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist

   The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, usually known as Salford Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral on Chapel Street in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

   5.7 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   The Cliff

   The Cliff is a sports ground in Broughton, Salford, England, on the banks of the River Irwell, that was rugby league club Broughton Rangers' home ground until 1933. It was purchased by association football club Manchester United for use as their training ground.

   3.4 km · sports ground in Broughton, Salford, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Manchester 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.

    5.2 km · museum in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Manchester Jewish Museum

   190 Cheetham Hill Road, M8 8LW (500m north of Victoria station, buses 135 & 41 CrossCity),.

2. 02
   Museum of Transport

   Boyle Street, M8 8UW (down road to the left hand side of the Go North West bus depot; 10-min walk from Queens Park Metrolink),.

3. 03
   Heaton Park

   Manchester's largest open space and one of the largest municipal parks in Europe.

From Wikivoyage: Prestwich, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

1. 01
   Sportcity

   This big complex was developed for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

2. 02
   Manchester City FC

   Ashton New Road, Sportcity M11 3FF (2 miles east of Piccadilly railway station, take tram to Etihad Campus),.

3. 03
   FC United of Manchester

   Broadhurst Park, 310 Lightbowne Road, Moston M40 0FJ (400 yards from Moston railway station),.

4. 04
   National Cycling Centre
5. 05
   Infinity

   819 Ashton Old Rd, Openshaw, M11 2NL (bus 219 or 220 from Manchester Piccadilly), admin@infinitymanchester.co.uk.

From Wikivoyage: Prestwich, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

The main collection of small eating places is along Cheetham Hill Road (A665) and Bury New Road (A56).

1. 01
   Kebabish Grill & Steakhouse

   170-172 Cheetham Hill Rd,.

2. 02
   Ta'am

   5 Bury New Rd,.

3. 03
   Real Taste

   815 Ashton Old Rd, Openshaw, M11 2NL,.

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Getting to Prestwich

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 20 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 55 km

Stations

Manchester Victoria station, 5.7 km · Salford Central railway station, 5.9 km · Salford Crescent railway station, 5.2 km · Moorside railway station, 5 km · Swinton railway station, 4.1 km

• Liverpool → Prestwich

  48 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · £5–7
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• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Prestwich

  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £6–8
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Prestwich

  99 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Prestwich

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

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