Town in Greater Manchester, England

Droylsden

Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Manchester city centre, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689.

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Every way there

Liverpool → Droylsden
56 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–9
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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Droylsden
53 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Droylsden
88 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £10–14
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The field note

What is in and around Droylsden, 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 Droylsden has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 17 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.

53.483°, -2.158°

How locals move

Getting around Droylsden 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. Photograph: Wolfgang Moroder (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.