Trafford Park
Trafford Park is an area of the metropolitan borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford.
Trafford Park is an area of the metropolitan borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century it was the ancestral home of the Trafford family, who sold it to the financier Ernest Terah Hooley in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), it was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and remained the largest in Europe over a century later.
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Worth seeing in and around Trafford Park
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.
2.4 km · football stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 02University 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.
3.9 km · public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester · Wikipedia - 03Old 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.
3 km · cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 04Barton Swing Aqueduct
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a moveable navigable aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell, Greater Manchester, England. It carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal.
1.9 km · navigable aqueduct · Wikipedia - 05Imperial War Museum North
Imperial War Museum North is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society.
1.7 km · military museum in Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 06Trafford Centre
The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre and entertainment complex in Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in 1998 and attracted 23.5 million visitors in 2025.
1.6 km · shopping mall and entertainment complex in Dumplington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia - 07All Saints' Church, Urmston
All Saints' Church is a Roman Catholic parish church situated between Dumplington and Barton upon Irwell, near Urmston, in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The church was constructed between 1867 and 1868 and was designed by E. W. Pugin in the Gothic Revival style for Sir Humphrey de Trafford.
1.8 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia - 08Barton Aqueduct
The Barton Aqueduct, opened on 17 July 1761, carried the Bridgewater Canal over the River Irwell at Barton-upon-Irwell, in the historic county of Lancashire, England. Designed largely by James Brindley under the direction of John Gilbert, it was the first navigable aqueduct to be built in England, "one of the seven wonders of the canal age" according to industrial archaeologist Mike Nevell.
1.9 km · aqueduct · Wikipedia - 09The Lowry
Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex at Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter L. S. Lowry, known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England.
1.9 km · arts centre and museum in Salford, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eccles
St Mary the Virgin's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The church is in the Eccles deanery, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester.
1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Trafford Park
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 14 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km
- Stations
- Eccles railway station, 1.8 km · Trafford Park railway station, 1.9 km · Salford Crescent railway station, 3.7 km · Humphrey Park railway station, 2 km · Chassen Road railway station, 3.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Trafford Park62 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Trafford Park96 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £11–15
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Trafford Park113 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Trafford Park
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 Trafford Park. 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 Trafford Park
Trafford Park is 6 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Salfordcity in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.5 km
- Stretfordtown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England2.8 km
- Ecclestown in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England1.7 km
- Barton upon Irwellsuburb in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, UK2.4 km
- Davyhulmetown in Trafford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Patricroftarea of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England2 km