Handforth
Handforth is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 9 miles south of Manchester city centre. The population of the parish was 6,715 at the 2021 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Handforth railway station and Styal railway station.
Handforth railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Handforth railway station serves Handforth, Cheshire, England. Opened in 1842, it is a stop on the Crewe to Manchester Line.
Styal railway station
Railway station
Photo: Anthony O’Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Styal railway station serves the village of Styal, in Cheshire, England. It is a stop on the Styal Line, which links Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport and Wilmslow.
Handforth Dean
Commercial area
Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Handforth Dean is a retail park in Handforth, Cheshire, England; it opened in 1995, alongside the A34. It contains four superstores: Marks & Spencer, Tesco Extra, JD Sports and Boots.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cheadle Hulme and Wilmslow.
Cheadle Hulme
Town
Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cheadle Hulme is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the historic county of Cheshire, 2 miles south-west of Stockport and 8 miles south-east of Manchester. Cheadle Hulme is situated 1½ miles northeast of Handforth.
Wilmslow
Photo: Nat7mas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wilmslow is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England. It lies 11 miles south of Manchester and 7 miles north-west of Macclesfield.
Peel Hall
Suburb
Peel Hall is a suburb of Manchester, England, nine miles south of the city centre and a mile north of Manchester Airport. Peel Hall is on the eastern edge of Wythenshawe and borders Heald Green and Gatley in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, and is mainly residential. Peel Hall is situated 2½ miles northwest of Handforth.
Handforth
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Mottram St. Andrew, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.35018° or 53° 21′ 1″ northLongitude
-2.21583° or 2° 12′ 57″ westPopulation
6,630Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 306042921OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Handforth” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هاندفورث”
- Basque: “Handforth”
- Bengali: “হ্যান্ডফোর্থ”
- Cebuano: “Handforth”
- Chinese: “汉德佛夫”
- Chinese: “漢德佛夫”
- Dutch: “Handforth”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هاندفورث”
- French: “Handforth”
- German: “Handforth”
- Gujarati: “હેન્ડફોર્થ”
- Irish: “Handforth”
- Japanese: “ハンドフォース”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಂಡ್ಫೋರ್ತ್”
- Korean: “핸드포스”
- Ladin: “Handforth”
- Lithuanian: “Handfortas”
- Persian: “هنفورث”
- Polish: “Handforth”
- Portuguese: “Handforth”
- Russian: “Хэндфорф”
- Spanish: “Handforth”
- Swedish: “Handforth”
- Tamil: “ஹண்டபோர்த்”
- Telugu: “హ్యాండ్ ఫోర్త్”
- Urdu: “ہینڈفورتھ”
- Welsh: “Handforth”
- “Handforth”
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