Salford
Worth seeing in and around Salford
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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- 03University of Manchester
Public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom
4.6 km · Wikipedia - 04
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- 10Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
3.5 km · 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.
Getting to Salford
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 41 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 59 km
- Stations
- Manchester Piccadilly station, 4.2 km · Manchester Victoria station, 3 km · Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 3.5 km · Deansgate railway station, 3 km · Salford Central railway station, 2.4 km
- Liverpool → Salford46 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £4.5–6
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Salford60 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Salford96 km · quickest by road, 3h · £11–15
- 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 Salford
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 Salford. 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 Salford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Salford
Salford is 4 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Manchestercity in Greater Manchester, England3.1 km
- Stretfordtown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England4.7 km
- Ecclestown in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England3.3 km
- Swintontown within the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England4.3 km
- Prestwichtown in Greater Manchester, England5.1 km
- Moss Sideinner-city area of Manchester, England4.9 km