Walkden

Worth seeing in and around Walkden

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.

   9.8 km · football stadium in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   University 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.

   9.5 km · public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Gigg Lane

   Gigg Lane is a football ground in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, built for Bury F.C. in 1885. The first match was played on 12 September 1885 between Bury and a team from Wigan.

   9.3 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
4. 04
   University of Greater Manchester

   The University of Greater Manchester is a public university in Bolton, Greater Manchester in England. It was known as the University of Bolton from 2005 until 2024.

   6 km · University in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   6.3 km · navigable aqueduct · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Leigh Sports Village

   Leigh Sports Village is a multi-use sports, retail and housing development in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The centrepiece of the development is a 12,000-capacity stadium which is home to professional rugby league team Leigh Leopards, the Manchester United Women's senior team, and Manchester United's men's Under-21 and Academy teams.

   9.3 km · stadium · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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.

   9 km · military museum in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   The Cliff

   The Cliff is a sports ground in Broughton, Salford, England, on the banks of the River Irwell, that was rugby league club Broughton Rangers' home ground until 1933. It was purchased by association football club Manchester United for use as their training ground.

   8.9 km · sports ground in Broughton, Salford, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Bolton Museum

   Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum is a public museum, art gallery, library and aquarium in the town of Bolton, England, owned by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. The museum, Bolton Museum, is housed within the grade II listed Le Mans Crescent near Bolton Town Hall and shares its main entrance with the library, Bolton Central Library, in a purpose-built civic centre.

   6.3 km · public museum and art gallery in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Moor Lane

    Moor Lane, currently known as the AIG Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the area of Kersal, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the current home ground of Salford City Football Club since its opening in 1978. It has a current capacity of 5,108, following its last expansion in 2017.

    8.2 km · English football stadium in Greater Manchester · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

See

1. 01
   Salford Cathedral

   Until 1829 the Roman Catholics in England were forbidden to build churches, and faced many other restrictions, so the city's large Irish population was ill-served.

2. 02
   Salford Museum & Art Gallery

   Crescent M5 4WU (200 yards east of Salford Crescent railway station),.

3. 03
   Working Class Movement Library

   50 The Crescent M5 4WX (100 yards south of Crescent railway station).

4. 04
   Ordsall Hall

   Timber-framed 16th-century mansion with 17th-century brick wings added, and much altered in the 18th century.

5. 05
   Barton Swing Aqueduct in Eccles

   A conventional aqueduct carried the Bridgewater Canal across the River Irwell from 1761.

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Things to do

Football:

1. 01
   Salford City FC

   "The Ammies" play soccer in League Two, the fourth tier.

2. 02
   Salford Community Stadium

From Wikivoyage: Walkden, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

The places near the station are just takeaways with a few bucket seats. Keep going past the first one you see, Caribbean Flavas, which gets rotten reviews. Further east on Blackfriars, Eastzest is a decent Indian restaurant open daily 5-11:30PM. Good restaurants at The Campanile and The Lowry Hotel, listed below. Lots of budget eateries on Salford Quays, Media City, and just across the bridge in Old Trafford.

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Getting to Walkden

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 21 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 37 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km

Stations

Manchester City Airport & Heliport, 5.9 km · Salford Crescent railway station, 9.2 km · Eccles railway station, 6.1 km · Trafford Park railway station, 9.6 km · Daisy Hill railway station, 7.9 km

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  64 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–9
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  104 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £12–16
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Walkden

  120 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Walkden

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

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