Town in Greater Manchester, England

Golborne

Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Golborne
78 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Golborne
112 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–18
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Golborne
120 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
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The field note

What is in and around Golborne, 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 Golborne has

YScheduled flightsLiverpool (LPL), 23 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.

53.476°, -2.594°

It lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south-south-east of Wigan, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Warrington and 14 miles (22.5 km) to the west of the city of Manchester. Along with the neighbouring village of Lowton, it recorded a population of 24,041.

How locals move

Getting around Golborne the local way

Get inFrom Manchester Airport a direct train runs hourly, taking 50 min via Manchester city centre and Newton-le-Willows, and continues to Runcorn, Chester, and along the north Welsh coast to Llandudno Junction, for Holyhead and ferries to Ireland.

From Wikivoyage: Warrington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Marcelo Segura (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.