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Tyldesley

Tyldesley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.

Tyldesley
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The place

Tyldesley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is north of Chat Moss near the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, eight miles southeast of Wigan and nine miles northwest of Manchester. At the 2001 United Kingdom census, the Tyldesley built-up area subdivision, excluding Shakerley, had a population of 16,142.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Tyldesley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 22 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 32 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 66 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Tyldesley
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Tyldesley
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Tyldesley
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tyldesley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.

From Wikivoyage: Bolton, 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

    287 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    300 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    322 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    324 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    348 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tyldesley

Tyldesley is 16 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.