Kearsley
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 14,200 residents
- Description: town in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kearsley, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kearsley railway station and Church of St Stephen.
Kearsley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kearsley railway station serves the town of Kearsley and the outlying villages of Stoneclough, Prestolee and Ringley in Greater Manchester, England. It was originally named Stoneclough.
Kearsley Academy
School
Kearsley Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status sponsored by Northern Education Trust. It is located in Kearsley in the English county of Greater Manchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prestolee and Farnworth.
Prestolee
Village
Photo: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prestolee is a small village in Kearsley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell and is one of a cluster of villages between Bolton and Kearsley, which includes Stoneclough and Ringley.
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.
Walkden
Town
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salford is a city in Greater Manchester in northwest England, with a population of 130,000 in 2021. It's separated from the City of Manchester by a loop of the River Irwell. Its biggest attraction is the Quays, but this area is described on a separate page.
Kearsley
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Bolton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.54014° or 53° 32′ 25″ northLongitude
-2.37796° or 2° 22′ 41″ westPopulation
14,200Elevation
328 feet (100 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KSYOpen location code
9C5VGJRC+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 30416806OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kearsley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “کيرسلي”
- Asturian: “Kearsley”
- Basque: “Kearsley”
- Bulgarian: “Кеарслей”
- Cebuano: “Kearsley”
- Chinese: “克斯利”
- Dutch: “Kearsley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “کيرسلى”
- French: “Kearsley”
- German: “Kearsley”
- Irish: “Kearsley”
- Italian: “Kearsley”
- Ladin: “Kearsley (Lancashire)”
- Ladin: “Kearsley”
- Persian: “کییرزلی”
- Polish: “Kearsley”
- Spanish: “Kearsley”
- Swedish: “Kearsley”
- Ukrainian: “Кірслі”
- Welsh: “Kearsley”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kearsley”. Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.