Urmston

Worth seeing in and around Urmston

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
   Old Trafford

   Old Trafford is a football stadium in the Old Trafford area of Greater Manchester, England. It is the home ground of Manchester United.

   5.7 km · football stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Old 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.

   5.9 km · cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Barton 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.

   3.3 km · navigable aqueduct · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Imperial 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.

   5.5 km · military museum in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Trafford Training Centre

   Trafford Training Centre is the training ground and academy headquarters of English football club Manchester United. It is near the village of Carrington, Greater Manchester, England, and replaced The Cliff as the club's training ground in 2000.

   3.4 km · football training ground in England · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Trafford 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.

   2.8 km · shopping mall and entertainment complex in Dumplington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
7. 07
   The 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.

   5.7 km · arts centre and museum in Salford, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   All 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.

   3.1 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Barton 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.

   3.3 km · aqueduct · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Church 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.

    4.8 km · Grade I listed church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Urmston

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 13 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 34 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 66 km

Stations

Manchester City Airport & Heliport, 2.7 km · Eccles railway station, 4.8 km · Trafford Park railway station, 4.2 km · Irlam railway station, 4.2 km · Patricroft railway station, 4.2 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Urmston

  66 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Urmston

  97 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £11–15
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Urmston

  112 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £13–17
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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 Urmston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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