Town in Greater Manchester, England

Royton

Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011.

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Every way there

Leeds, West Yorkshire → Royton
46 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £5–7
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Liverpool → Royton
59 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Royton
94 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £12–16
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Royton, 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 Royton has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 26 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.

53.566°, -2.121°

Close to the source of the River Irk, near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Oldham, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Rochdale and 8 miles (12.9 km) northeast of Manchester.

How locals move

Getting around Royton 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: Michael Ashton (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.