Walkden
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Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Walkden railway station and Church of St John the Baptist.
Walkden railway station
Railway station
Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Walkden railway station serves the town of Walkden in City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England on the Manchester to Southport Line. The station is located 8+1⁄4 miles north-west of Manchester with regular Northern Trains services to these towns as well as the city of Salford, Swinton and Hindley.
The Lowry Academy
School
The Lowry Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, which serves pupils from Little Hulton and Walkden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kearsley and Farnworth.
Kearsley
Town
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kearsley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 14,212. Within the Historic County of Lancashire, it lies 8 miles northwest of Manchester, 5 miles southwest of Bury and 3+3⁄4 miles south of Bolton.
Farnworth
Town
Photo: David Ingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester in the North-West of England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre. It celebrates its industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton, and railways. Farnworth is situated 1½ miles north of Walkden.
Boothstown
Village
Photo: Tony Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boothstown is a suburban village in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. Boothstown forms part of the Boothstown and Ellenbrook ward, which had a population at the 2011 Census of 9,599. Boothstown is situated 1½ miles southwest of Walkden.
Walkden
- Type: Town with 35,900 residents
- Description: suburban town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England
- Category: locality
- Location: Salford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.52423° or 53° 31′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.39844° or 2° 23′ 54″ westPopulation
35,900Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WKDOpen location code
9C5VGJF2+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 30416807OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Walkden” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Walkden”
- Aragonese: “Walkden”
- Arpitan: “Walkden”
- Asturian: “Walkden”
- Basque: “Walkden”
- Bavarian: “Walkden”
- Bengali: “ওয়াকডেন”
- Breton: “Walkden”
- Catalan: “Walkden”
- Cebuano: “Walkden”
- Chinese: “沃克登”
- Chinese: “瓦尔登”
- Chinese: “瓦爾登”
- Corsican: “Walkden”
- Croatian: “Walkden”
- Czech: “Walkden”
- Danish: “Walkden”
- Dutch: “Walkden”
- Esperanto: “Walkden”
- Estonian: “Walkden”
- Finnish: “Walkden”
- French: “Walkden”
- Friulian: “Walkden”
- Galician: “Walkden”
- German: “Walkden”
- Greek: “Γουόκντεν”
- Gujarati: “વોકડેન”
- Hebrew: “ווקדן”
- Hungarian: “Walkden”
- Icelandic: “Walkden”
- Ido: “Walkden”
- Indonesian: “Walkden”
- Interlingua: “Walkden”
- Interlingue: “Walkden”
- Irish: “Walkden”
- Italian: “Walkden”
- Japanese: “ウォークデン”
- Kannada: “ವಾಕ್ಡೆನ್”
- Kongo: “Walkden”
- Korean: “워크던”
- Ladin: “Walkden (Lancashire)”
- Ladin: “Walkden”
- Ligurian: “Walkden”
- Limburgan: “Walkden”
- Lithuanian: “Walkdenas”
- Low German: “Walkden”
- Luxembourgish: “Walkden”
- Malagasy: “Walkden”
- Malay: “Walkden”
- Minangkabau: “Walkden”
- Narom: “Walkden”
- Neapolitan: “Walkden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Walkden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Walkden”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Walkden”
- Persian: “واکدن”
- Picard: “Walkden”
- Piemontese: “Walkden”
- Polish: “Walkden”
- Portuguese: “Walkden”
- Romanian: “Walkden”
- Romansh: “Walkden”
- Russian: “Уолкден”
- Sardinian: “Walkden”
- Scots: “Walkden”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Walkden”
- Serbian: “Walkden”
- Sicilian: “Walkden”
- Slovak: “Walkden”
- Slovenian: “Walkden”
- Spanish: “Walkden (Gran Mánchester)”
- Spanish: “Walkden”
- Swahili: “Walkden”
- Swedish: “Walkden”
- Swiss German: “Walkden”
- Tamil: “வாலக்டென்”
- Telugu: “వాక్డెన్”
- Urdu: “والکدین”
- Venetian: “Walkden”
- Vietnamese: “Walkden”
- Vlaams: “Walkden”
- Volapük: “Walkden”
- Walloon: “Walkden”
- Welsh: “Walkden”
- Wolof: “Walkden”
- Zulu: “Walkden”
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