Places to explore near Irlam StationIrlam

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

6.5 km SE

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.

7 km NE

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

7.2 km SW

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

1 km SE · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside

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

3.8 km SW

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

5.5 km SE · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

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

6.3 km S

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

6.5 km S · Cheshire

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

7.7 km N

A country park in Greater Manchester.

8.7 km NW

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

8.9 km N · Greater Manchester

Hushed estate hamlet above Rostherne Mere, a nature reserve, with St Mary's on the hill.

9.3 km S · Cheshire