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Timperley

Timperley is a suburban area in the borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England.

Timperley
Timperley · New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General
The place

Timperley is a suburban area in the borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, it lies approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-west of central Manchester. The population at the 2021 census was 11,323.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Timperley

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
    Altrincham

    Altrincham is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is located south of the River Mersey, 8 miles south-west of Manchester, 3 miles south-west of Sale and 10 miles east of Warrington.

    1.9 km · market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Moss Lane

    Moss Lane is a multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is currently used primarily for football matches and is the home ground of Altrincham.

    600 m · multi-purpose stadium in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Watch Hill Castle

    Watch Hill Castle is a medieval motte-and-bailey on the boundary of Bowdon and Dunham Massey in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it is a scheduled monument.

    4 km · medieval castle in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Royd House

    Royd House is a Grade I listed building in Hale, Greater Manchester. It was designed by architect Edgar Wood as his own home and was built between 1914 and 1916.

    1.2 km · Grade I listed building in Trafford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St George's Church, Altrincham

    St George's Church is in the town of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1.6 km · grade II listed church in Altrincham, Trafford, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Baguley Hall

    Baguley Hall is a 14th-century timber-framed building in Baguley, Greater Manchester, England. A former country house, historically in Cheshire, it is now Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    3.4 km · 14th-century timber-framed hall in Baguley, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is in the village and electoral ward of Bowdon near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    2.6 km · church in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St John the Divine, Brooklands

    The Church of St John the Divine is a Church of England parish church in Brooklands, Sale, Greater Manchester. The church is a grade II* listed building.

    2.5 km · church in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Heywood Road

    Heywood Road is a multi-use rugby stadium in Sale, Greater Manchester, England, which has been the home ground of rugby union side Sale F.C. since 1905. It was the home ground of spin-off professional club Sale Sharks until they moved to Edgeley Park, Stockport, in 2003.

    3.3 km · rugby stadium in Sale · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Christ Church

    Christ Church is a Church of England church in the village of Timperley near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    900 m · church building in Timperley, 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 Timperley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 5 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 35 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 69 km
Stations
Altrincham Interchange, 1.3 km · Navigation Road station, 1.4 km · Ashley railway station, 3.6 km · Hale railway station, 1.6 km · Timperley tram stop, 2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Timperley
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Timperley
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Timperley
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Timperley

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 Timperley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    293 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    308 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    339 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    365 km

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

Around it

Next door to Timperley

Timperley is 12 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Halevillage in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England2.2 km
  • Ashleyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, UK3.7 km
  • Bowdonvillage in Greater Manchester, UK2.8 km
  • Baguleysmall locality in Wythenshawe in Manchester, England3.7 km
  • Brooklandselectoral ward of Manchester City Council2.8 km
  • Broadheathtown in Greater Manchester, UK2.1 km