Town in Greater Manchester, England

Bredbury

Bredbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England; it lies 8 miles (12.9 km) south-east of Manchester, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Stockport and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Hyde.

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Liverpool → Bredbury
57 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bredbury
56 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £7–9
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bredbury
82 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £9–12
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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 Bredbury, 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 Bredbury has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 14 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

53.420°, -2.113°

The Bredbury and Woodley built up area had a population of 17,040 at the 2021 census.

How locals move

Getting around Bredbury 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.

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