Royton
Worth seeing in and around Royton
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.
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- 03Parish Church of St Mary with St Peter, Oldham
Church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
2.6 km · Wikipedia - 04St James' Church, Oldham
Grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
2.8 km · Wikipedia - 05Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church, Oldham
Catholic church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
2.9 km · Wikipedia - 06St. Matthew's Church, Chadderton
Grade II listed church in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
2.1 km · Wikipedia - 07
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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.
Getting to Royton
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 26 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 45 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 55 km
- Stations
- Oldham Mumps tram stop, 2.8 km · Oldham Werneth railway station, 2.9 km · Mills Hill railway station, 3.6 km · Derker tram stop, 2.2 km · Oldham Central tram stop, 2.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Royton46 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £5–7
- Liverpool → Royton59 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Royton94 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £12–16
- 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 Royton
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 Royton. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Manchester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Royton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Royton
Royton is 12 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oldhamtown in Greater Manchester, England2.3 km
- Chaddertontown within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England2.5 km
- Shaw and Cromptoncivil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England2.4 km
- Shawtown in Shaw and Crompton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England2.6 km
- Counthill Schoolcommunity school in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England3.2 km
- Wernethsuburb in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK3.3 km