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Milnrow
Town in Greater Manchester, England

Milnrow

Milnrow is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England.

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It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, and forms a continuous urban area with Rochdale. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Rochdale town centre, 10 miles (16.1 km) north-northeast of Manchester, and spans from Windy Hill in the east to the Rochdale Canal in the west. Milnrow is adjacent to junction 21 of the M62 motorway, and includes the village of Newhey, and hamlets at Tunshill and Ogden.

Get in

Getting to Milnrow

Manchester Airport (MAN IATA) has frequent trains to central Manchester. Pick a train that continues beyond Piccadilly to Victoria, where you change for the train or tram to Rochdale as below. You can ride the tram all the way from the airport and change trams at Deansgate, but that's much slower for scant fare saving. Trains from Manchester Victoria run to Rochdale every 10 min, taking 15-20 min.

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    Interchange is the bus

    National Express Bus NX 540 runs daily from London Victoria to Rochdale Interchange, taking 6 hours.

See

Worth seeing

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    Rochdale Pioneers Museum

    31 Toad Lane OL12 0NU (off Hunter’s Lane),.

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    Rochdale Town Hall

    Attractive Victorian Gothic revival building opened in 1871.

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    Ellenroad Engine House

    Elizabethan Way, Milnrow OL16 4LE (by jcn 21 of M62).

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    Summit Tunnel

    When opened in 1841, it was the world's longest railway tunnel, at 2885 yards (2638 m).

Do

Things to do

Cinema: Reel Cinema is in Riverside Retail Centre Odeon is west side of town in Sandbrook Park. Theatre: Curtain Theatre is at 47 Milkstone Rd, 100 yards west of the railway station. Rochdale Leisure Centre is on Entwisle Rd. It has a fitness centre and swimming pool. Football: Rochdale AFC were promoted in 2026 and now play soccer in League Two, the fourth tier.

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    TeamKarting

    Ensor Mill, Queensway OL11 2NU, hello@teamkarting.co.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

The Martlet is within Town Hall, open M-Th 10AM-4PM, F Sa 10AM-9PM, Su noon-6PM. La Mancha is a tapas place at

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