What are nice day trips from Manchester?
Short answer
Holmfirth, Saltaire, Hulme End and Dewsbury are some potential day trips within 50 km of Manchester. Llandysilio, Crowle, Burton-on-Trent and Lichfield are within 100 km of Manchester. Stockton-on-Tees, Porthmadog, Great Malvern and Stamford are within 200 km of Manchester by train. We list 55 places below, including 34 old-world towns (Buxton and Huddersfield), 24 lake or river towns (Widnes and East Retford), 14 market towns (Whitchurch and Kendal) and 11 hiking towns (Burnsall and Youlgreave). More below.
Within 50 km 11 places
Within 100 km 32 places
By train, within 200 km 12 places
Places with a railway station within a 10-minute drive. Each one links to public-transport directions from Manchester, so you can check the route and journey time.
Aberdyfi
A photogenic Welsh village on the Dyfi estuary, Aberdyfi sits within Snowdonia National Park and draws golfers, sailors, and watersports enthusiasts to its w…
Porthmadog
This pocket-sized coastal town in Gwynedd, Wales, Porthmadog grew in the 19th century as a slate port on the Glaslyn estuary, and its surviving wharves now s…
Penparcau
A pocket-sized village just south of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales, Penparcau sits between Tan y Bwlch beach, the River Ystwyth, and the River Rheidol, wi…
Great Malvern
At the foot of the Malvern Hills — a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Worcestershire — Great Malvern grew from an 11th-century Benedictine pr…
Machynlleth
Machynlleth, a compact market town in the Dyfi Valley in Powys, Wales, claims the title of "ancient capital of Wales" as the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Pa…
Maentwrog
This tiny village in the Vale of Ffestiniog within Snowdonia National Park, Maentwrog sits alongside the River Dwyryd with the Moelwyn Bach mountains to the…
Criccieth
A tiny seaside town on the south coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, Criccieth is dominated by the ruins of Criccieth Castle, which look out over…
Stamford
This walkable Lincolnshire market town with five medieval parish churches, a centre dense with listed stone and timber-framed buildings from the 17th and 18t…
Stockton-on-Tees
A market town on the northern bank of the River Tees in County Durham, Stockton-on-Tees has a walkable centre dense with listed buildings, historic churches,…
Pwllheli
Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, was founded in Pwllheli, a tiny market town on the southern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in north-west Wales.
