Places to explore near Chassen Road StationFlixton

The world's first swing aqueduct — a 235-foot iron trough that pivots aside, water and all, to let ships pass on the Manchester Ship Canal.

3.4 km N

An early-Georgian mansion with one of Britain's largest winter gardens and a deer park.

7.3 km S

The Victorian seaway that made inland Manchester a port, taking ocean-going ships 36 miles up from the Mersey estuary.

2.3 km NW · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside

The Duke's canal of 1761 that began the Canal Age, crossing the Mersey flats between Manchester, Runcorn and Leigh.

3.2 km NE · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

The RHS's vast new garden in the old Worsley New Hall estate, with a huge walled garden and Chinese streamside.

6.2 km N

Canal village on the Bridgewater with a distinctive black-and-white green and ochre-tinted water, now home to RHS Bridgewater.

7.1 km N · Greater Manchester

Old timber-and-brick church at Warburton, on the site of a 12th-century priory of Norbertine canons.

7.5 km SW

Beamed country pub at Little Bollington near Dunham Massey and the Bridgewater Canal, serving since at least 1745.

7.9 km S

The first canal across the Pennines — 91 broad locks between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, reopened whole in 2002.

8 km NE · Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire

A country park in Greater Manchester.

9 km NE

A country park in Greater Manchester.

9.4 km N