Swinton
Worth seeing in and around Swinton
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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- 02Trafford Centre
Shopping mall and entertainment complex in Dumplington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
3.5 km · Wikipedia - 03Wardley Hall
Grade I listed English country house in Wardley, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
2 km · Wikipedia - 04
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- 06Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eccles
Grade I listed church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
2 km · Wikipedia - 07
- 08St Mark's Church, Worsley
Grade I listed church in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
2.3 km · Wikipedia - 09
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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 Swinton
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 17 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 61 km
- Stations
- Eccles railway station, 1.9 km · Patricroft railway station, 1.7 km · Walkden railway station, 3.7 km · Swinton railway station, 1.9 km · Moorside railway station, 1.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Swinton62 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Swinton100 km · quickest by road, 3h · £12–15
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Swinton117 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–18
- 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 Swinton
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 Swinton. 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 Swinton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Swinton
Swinton is 8 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Salfordmetropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England1.5 km
- Ecclestown in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England2.1 km
- Worsleysuburb in City of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK2.5 km
- Kearsleytown in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.6 km
- Trafford Parkarea of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England3.7 km
- Pendleburytown in the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England2.4 km