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Handforth
Town in Cheshire, England

Handforth

Handforth is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 9 miles (14 km) south of Manchester city centre.

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The population of the parish was 6,715 at the 2021 census. In the 1960s and 1970s, two overspill housing estates, Spath Lane in Handforth, and Colshaw Farm nearby in Wilmslow, were built to re-house people from inner city Manchester. It lies between Wilmslow, Heald Green, and Styal, and forms part of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area.

How locals move

Getting around Handforth the local way

  • Go nextAfter taking in the splendid scenery and trekking to your heart's content, either camping out overnight or staying in Buxton, you might want to continue on to Sheffield, another post-industrial Northern city with more to offer than that description suggests.

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

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