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Rusholme

Rusholme is an area of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England, two miles south of the city centre.

Rusholme
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The place

Rusholme is an area of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England, two miles south of the city centre. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 13,643. Rusholme is bounded by Chorlton-on-Medlock to the north, Victoria Park and Longsight to the east, Fallowfield to the south and Moss Side to the west. It has a large student population, with several student halls and many students renting terraced houses, and suburban houses towards Victoria Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Rusholme

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 12 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 59 km
  • Liverpool → Rusholme
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rusholme
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rusholme
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rusholme

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 Rusholme. 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

    302 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    303 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    314 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    337 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    363 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rusholme

Rusholme is 3 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.