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Prestwich
Town in Greater Manchester, England

Prestwich

Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, three miles north of Manchester, three miles north of Salford and five miles south of Bury.

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Get in

Getting to Prestwich

  1. 01
    Manchester Victoria railway station is just south
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Manchester Jewish Museum

    190 Cheetham Hill Road, M8 8LW (500m north of Victoria station, buses 135 & 41 CrossCity),.

  2. 02
    Museum of Transport

    Boyle Street, M8 8UW (down road to the left hand side of the Go North West bus depot; 10-min walk from Queens Park Metrolink),.

  3. 03
    Heaton Park

    Manchester's largest open space and one of the largest municipal parks in Europe.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Sportcity

    This big complex was developed for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

  2. 02
    Manchester City FC

    Ashton New Road, Sportcity M11 3FF (2 miles east of Piccadilly railway station, take tram to Etihad Campus),.

  3. 03
    FC United of Manchester

    Broadhurst Park, 310 Lightbowne Road, Moston M40 0FJ (400 yards from Moston railway station),.

  4. 04
    National Cycling Centre
  5. 05
    Infinity

    819 Ashton Old Rd, Openshaw, M11 2NL (bus 219 or 220 from Manchester Piccadilly), admin@infinitymanchester.co.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

The main collection of small eating places is along Cheetham Hill Road (A665) and Bury New Road (A56).

  1. 01
    Kebabish Grill & Steakhouse

    170-172 Cheetham Hill Rd,.

  2. 02
    Ta'am

    5 Bury New Rd,.

  3. 03
    Real Taste

    815 Ashton Old Rd, Openshaw, M11 2NL,.

How locals move

Getting around Prestwich 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 and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Rept0n1x (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.