Human settlement in England

Bowlee

Bowlee is a village in Greater Manchester, England.

Every way there

Liverpool → Bowlee
52 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £5–7
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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bowlee
53 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bowlee
98 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £11–15
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Bowlee, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Bowlee has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 23 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Bury, 7 km.

53.553°, -2.237°

Bowlee is situated along the Heywood Old Road (A6045) on the outskirts of Middleton between Rhodes and Heywood. Historically it forms part of Lancashire.

How locals move

Getting around Bowlee the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.