Places to explore near Urmston StationUrmston

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 km N

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

7.8 km S

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

2.5 km NE · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

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

2.5 km NW · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside

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

6.4 km NW

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

7.1 km NE · Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire

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

A country park in Greater Manchester.

8.4 km NE

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

8.4 km SW

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

8.5 km SW

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

8.9 km NE · Greater Manchester