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

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.
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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 → Tyldesley68 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Tyldesley108 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Tyldesley121 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £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 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.
- 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.
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Next door to Tyldesley
Tyldesley is 16 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.