Places to explore near Eccles StationEccles

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.

1.7 km SW

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

0.7 km SE · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside

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

1.6 km SW · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

A country park in Greater Manchester.

4.1 km NE

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

4.2 km NW · Greater Manchester

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

4.3 km W

A country park in Greater Manchester.

4.8 km N

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

5.3 km E · Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire

A country park in Greater Manchester.

6.3 km NW

East Manchester's canal, lifting boats out of the city through eighteen locks toward the Pennine crossings.

6.9 km E · Greater Manchester