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Woodbank, Stockport

Woodbank is a Grade II* listed early 19th‑century villa in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, set within Woodbank Memorial Park.

Woodbank, Stockport
Woodbank, Stockport · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Woodbank is a Grade II* listed early 19th‑century villa in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, set within Woodbank Memorial Park. Built between 1812 and 1814 to a Greek Revival design by Thomas Harrison for the industrialist Peter Marsland, it later served as a museum, art gallery and council offices. Donated to the borough in 1924, the building has since fallen vacant and is now on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woodbank, Stockport

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
    Edgeley Park

    Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, Stockport County Football Club moved in by 1902, a year before the rugby club went defunct.

    2.6 km · football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Elisabeth's Church

    St. Elisabeth's Church is an Anglo Catholic church in Reddish, an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse in the Victorian Gothic style.

    3.8 km · church in Reddish, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Christ Church, Heaton Norris

    Christ Church consists of the remains of a redundant Anglican church on Wellington Road North in Heaton Norris, a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Only the tower and part of the walls of the aisles survive.

    2.5 km · church in Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St George's Church, Heaviley

    St George's Church is in Buxton Road, Heaviley, an area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Stockport, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.

    2 km · Grade I listed church in Heaviley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Thomas' Church, Stockport

    St Thomas' Church is in St Thomas's Place, Wellington Road South, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Church of England church in the parish of Stockport and Brinnington, in the deanery of Stockport, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the Diocese of Chester.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Stockport, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Garrick Theatre

    Garrick Theatre is a theatre in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, founded in 1901. In 1904 it obtained its own premises in Cobden Place, Wellington Street.

    2 km · theatre in Stockport, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Joseph's Church, Stockport

    St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It was built from 1861 to 1862 and designed by Matthew Ellison Hadfield.

    1.8 km · church building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Stockport Town Hall

    Stockport Town Hall is a building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, that houses the government and administrative functions of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. Stockport Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.9 km · town hall in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Our Lady and the Apostles Church, Stockport

    Our Lady and the Apostles Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Edgeley area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It was built from 1903 to 1905 and replaced St Philip and St James Church, built in 1803, which was the first permanent Catholic church to be built in Stockport after the English Reformation.

    2.2 km · church building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mary's Church, Stockport

    St Mary's Church is the oldest parish church in Stockport, a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on Churchgate overlooking Market Place.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed parish church in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Woodbank, Stockport

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 12 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 59 km
Stations
Stockport railway station, 2.2 km · Romiley railway station, 2.8 km · Hazel Grove railway station, 3.6 km · Davenport railway station, 2.6 km · Bredbury railway station, 2 km
  • Liverpool → Woodbank, Stockport
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Woodbank, Stockport
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Woodbank, Stockport
    109 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woodbank, Stockport

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.

From Wikivoyage: Manchester, 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    302 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    309 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    345 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    371 km

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Around it

Next door to Woodbank, Stockport

Woodbank, Stockport is 11 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stockporttown in Greater Manchester, England1.2 km
  • Bredburysuburban town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England1.7 km
  • Romileyarea of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England3.1 km
  • Davenportsuburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England3 km
  • Brinningtonvillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.8 km
  • Heaton Chapelsuburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.4 km