Places to explore near Flixton 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.

4.1 km NE

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

6.9 km S

Wooded reservoir on the edge of Lymm village, a peaceful circular walk of water, dingle and gorge.

9.9 km SW

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

1.6 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.

4 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.

6.3 km N

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

6.5 km SW

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

7.3 km S

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

7.3 km N · Greater Manchester

Village straddling the Bridgewater Canal, with a sandstone cross, wooded dingle and the reedy expanse of Lymm Dam.

8.8 km SW · Cheshire

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

9.1 km E · Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire

A country park in Greater Manchester.

9.5 km N