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Simister

Simister is a small suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

Simister
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The place

Simister is a small suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it is located between the districts of Prestwich, Rhodes and Langley. Although the village's proximity to Manchester means the residential population is mainly made up of commuters, the village has a rural feel with much agricultural activity.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Simister

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
    Heaton Park

    Heaton Park is a public park in Higher Blackley, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, covering an area of over 600 acres. The park includes the grounds of a Grade I listed, neoclassical 18th century country house, Heaton Hall.

    1.7 km · municipal park in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints' Church, Whitefield

    All Saints' Church or Stand Church is an active Anglican parish church in Stand, Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England. It is in the deanery of Radcliffe and Prestwich, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.4 km · church in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is on Church Lane, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Radcliffe and Prestwich, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation

    Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Middleton Road, Higher Crumpsall, North Manchester, England. The congregation was founded in 1935 and worships in the Ashkenazi rite.

    3.2 km · synagogue in the UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Heaton Park Tramway

    The Heaton Park Tramway is a heritage tramway that operates within Heaton Park, a large municipal park in the English city of Manchester. It is operated by the Manchester Transport Museum Society, a registered charity.

    1.9 km · museum tramway in Heaton Park, Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Blackley Cemetery

    Blackley Cemetery is a large, municipal cemetery situated within the northern suburbs of the city of Manchester, and is owned, operated and maintained by Manchester City Council. The cemetery and crematorium complex is located on Victoria Avenue in the district of Blackley.

    2.1 km · cemetery in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Peter, Blackley

    The Church of St Peter is a Gothic Revival church on Old Market Street in Blackley, a suburban area of Manchester, England. It was built in 1844 to a design by the ecclesiastical architect E. H. Shellard.

    3.4 km · church in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Heaton Park BT Tower

    The Heaton Park BT Tower is a 238-foot tall concrete telecommunications tower located next to Heaton Park Reservoir in Manchester, England. Heaton Park BT Tower is one of the few British towers built of reinforced concrete, and one of seven BT towers of the 'Chilterns' design.

    1.2 km · Telecommunication tower in England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Heaton Park Reservoir

    Heaton Park Reservoir is a granite sided reservoir in the North-West of England, on the border between the City of Manchester and Bury and is owned by United Utilities, and can be found within the grounds of Heaton Park. Heaton Park BT Tower lies on the banks of the reservoir, which is close to Junction 18 of the M60 motorway.

    1.4 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Margaret's Church, Prestwich

    The Parish Church of St Margaret is a Church of England parish church situated on St Margaret's Road, off Bury Old Road in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England. The Grade II listed church, in the Diocese of Manchester, was designed in the Decorated style by the Manchester architects Travis and Mangnall in 1849 as a chapel-of-ease to the ancient Prestwich Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin.

    2 km · grade II listed church in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England, UK · 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 Simister

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 22 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 46 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 52 km
Stations
Crumpsall tram stop, 3.6 km · Middleton bus station, 3.1 km
  • Liverpool → Simister
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Simister
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Simister
    99 km · quickest by road, 3h · £12–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Simister

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 Simister. 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

    292 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    325 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    328 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km

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

Around it

Next door to Simister

Simister is 8 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Middletontown in Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England4 km
  • Whitefieldtown in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England3.5 km
  • Prestwichtown in Greater Manchester, England3 km
  • Blackleyarea of the city of Manchester, England3.4 km
  • Rhodesvillage in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England1.5 km
  • Bowleevillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK500 m