Whalley Range, Manchester

Worth seeing in and around Whalley Range, Manchester

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.

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

   The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, with its main campus south of the city centre on Oxford Road. It is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.

   2.3 km · public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Manchester Metrolink

   Manchester Metrolink is a tram and light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The network has 99 stops along 64 miles of standard-gauge route, making it the most extensive light rail system in the United Kingdom.

   3.7 km · light rail and tram system in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Manchester Metropolitan University

   Manchester Metropolitan University is a public university in Manchester, England. The university's predecessor, Manchester Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992.

   2.4 km · university in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Manchester Art Gallery

   Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry.

   3.3 km · publicly owned art gallery in Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Manchester Cathedral

   Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.

   4 km · church of England cathedral in Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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.

   2.3 km · cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Manchester Museum

   Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England. Sited on Oxford Road at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about 4.5 million items from every continent.

   2.2 km · natural history museum · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Beetham Tower

   Beetham Tower is a 47-storey mixed use skyscraper in Manchester, England. Completed in 2006, it is named after its developers, the Beetham Organisation, and was designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners.

   2.8 km · skyscraper in Manchester, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    John Rylands Library

    The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester.

    3.4 km · building on Deansgate in Manchester, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Whalley Range, Manchester

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 11 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 42 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 61 km

Stations

Manchester Piccadilly station, 3.4 km · Manchester Oxford Road railway station, 2.8 km · Deansgate railway station, 2.7 km · Salford Central railway station, 3.7 km · Trafford Park railway station, 3.9 km

• Liverpool → Whalley Range, Manchester

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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Whalley Range, Manchester

  92 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £11–14
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