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Romiley

Romiley is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

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The place

Romiley is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it borders Marple, Bredbury and Woodley. At the 2021 census, the built up area had a population of 10,900.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Romiley

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
    All Saints Church, Marple

    All Saints Church is in Church Lane, Marple, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3 km · church in Marple, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Martin, Marple

    The Church of St Martin is a 19th-century church on Brabyns Brow in Marple, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It was designed by J. D. Sedding for Maria Anne Hudson, who lived in nearby Brabyns Hall, and was built between 1869 and 1870.

    2.2 km · Grade II* listed church in Marple, Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Marple Aqueduct

    Marple Aqueduct at Marple, Greater Manchester, England, was built to carry the lower level of the Peak Forest Canal across the River Goyt. It is the highest aqueduct in England.

    1.1 km · aqueduct in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St George's Church, Hyde

    St George's Church is on Church Street, Hyde, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Mottram, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.

    3.9 km · church in Hyde, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Werneth Low

    Werneth Low is a hill in Greater Manchester, England, and a part of the Pennines. It is located on the border of Stockport and Tameside, rising to a height of 279 metres.

    3.2 km · hill in Tameside, Greater Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chadkirk Chapel

    Chadkirk Chapel is a Grade II* listed former chapel on Chadkirk Lane in Chadkirk, near Romiley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Parts of the building date from the 16th century, though worship on the site is thought to be older, and the chapel has undergone periods of neglect, rebuilding and restoration.

    600 m · church and museum in Stockport, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Pear New Mill

    Pear New Mill is a former Edwardian cotton spinning mill on the northern bank of the River Goyt in Bredbury, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.3 km · Grade II* listed mill building in Bredbury, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Vernon Park

    Vernon Park is the oldest country park in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. The Victorian park contains the Vernon Park Museum.

    3.7 km · country park in Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Woodbank, Stockport

    Woodbank is a Grade II* listed early 19th‑century villa in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, set within Woodbank Memorial Park. Built between 1812 and 1814 to a Greek Revival design by Thomas Harrison for the industrialist Peter Marsland, it later served as a museum, art gallery and council offices.

    3.1 km · Grade II* listed house in Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Etherow Country Park

    Etherow Country Park is in Compstall, a village between Marple Bridge and Romiley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is a local nature reserve and the starting point of the Goyt Way.

    3.2 km · country park in Compstall, 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.

Go there

Getting to Romiley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 51 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km
Stations
Romiley railway station, 400 m · Marple railway station, 2.1 km · Rose Hill Marple railway station, 1.8 km · Bredbury railway station, 2.2 km · Woodley railway station, 2.1 km
  • Liverpool → Romiley
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Romiley
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Romiley
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Romiley

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 Romiley. 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

    304 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    311 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    346 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    373 km

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

Around it

Next door to Romiley

Romiley is 13 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Marpletown in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England2.1 km
  • Bredburysuburban town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England2.2 km
  • Compstallvillage in Stockport, UK2 km
  • Offerton Greenvillage in the borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester3.6 km
  • Marple Bridgevillage in the Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester3 km
  • Offertonsuburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.4 km