Stretford
Stretford is a market town in Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England, sited on flat ground between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal; the Bridgewater Canal bisects the town.
Stretford is a market town in Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England, sited on flat ground between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal; the Bridgewater Canal bisects the town. The town is located 4 miles (6.4 km) south of central Manchester, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Salford and 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Altrincham. Stretford borders Chorlton-cum-Hardy to the east, Moss Side and Whalley Range to the south-east, Hulme to the north-east, Urmston to the west, Salford to the north and Sale to the south. In 2011 it had a population of 46,910.
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Worth seeing in and around Stretford
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.
- 01Old Trafford
Old Trafford is a football stadium in the Old Trafford area of Greater Manchester, England. It is the home ground of Manchester United.
2.2 km · football stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 02University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.
5.5 km · public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Manchester Metrolink
Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.
5.1 km · light rail and tram system in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 04Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992.
5.2 km · university in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia - 05University of Salford
The University of Salford is a public research university located in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile west of Manchester city centre. The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status in 1967, following the Robbins Report into higher education.
4.9 km · public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester · Wikipedia - 06Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry.
5.7 km · publicly owned art gallery in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia - 07Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Old Trafford is a cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in 1857 as the home of Manchester Cricket Club and has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since 1864.
1.8 km · cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 08Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent.
5.4 km · natural history museum · Wikipedia - 09John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester.
5.5 km · building on Deansgate in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 10Beetham Tower
Beetham Tower is a 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, England. Completed in 2006, it is named after its developers, the Beetham Organisation, and was designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners.
5 km · skyscraper in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stretford
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 11 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 63 km
- Stations
- Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 5.3 km · Salford Central railway station, 5.3 km · Deansgate railway station, 4.9 km · Eccles railway station, 4.6 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Stretford64 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stretford95 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £11–14
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Stretford111 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–17
- 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 Stretford
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 Stretford. 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.
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Next door to Stretford
Stretford is 6 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Manchestercity in Greater Manchester, England5.6 km
- Salfordcity in Greater Manchester, England, UK4.2 km
- Traffordmetropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England1.6 km
- Saletown within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England2.7 km
- Ecclestown in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England4.5 km
- Didsburyarea of the City of Manchester, England5.8 km