RHS Bridgewater Garden

This colliery was a latecomer, extracting the coal beneath Chat Moss from 1912 to 1970. It became a museum, with its impressive tall headgear and winding engine, and a collection of colliery locomotives.

This 20,000 capacity stadium is at junction 11 of M60, four miles west of the centre. Salford Red Devils were relegated in 2025 so they play rugby league (13-a-side) in the Championship, the second tier, while the women's team play here in their top tier. The RL playing season is Feb-Sep. Sale Sharks play rugby union (15-a-side) in the Premiership, England's top tier, with a season Sep-April. In 2025 the stadium hosted games in the Women's Rugby Union World Cup.

"The Ammies" play soccer in League Two, the fourth tier. Their Moor Lane stadium (capacity 5100, and sponsored as "Peninsula Stadium") is two miles north of the centre, take the bus up Bury New Road. But if you came here to make a point of not watching Man United you're in the wrong place, as the club is owned by United's renowned "Class of 92" players.

Rotating exhibitions, permanent collection includes a mock-up Victorian street. Pay & display car parking.

Timber-framed 16th-century mansion with 17th-century brick wings added, and much altered in the 18th century. There's a hoaky legend that Guy Fawkes planned the gunpowder plot here then escaped through a hidden tunnel.

Until 1829 the Roman Catholics in England were forbidden to build churches, and faced many other restrictions, so the city's large Irish population was ill-served. The RC Cathedral of St John the Evangelist was completed in 1848 in neo-Gothic but not consecrated until the builders were finally paid in 1890. It's not "oriented"ː "west" where you enter is actually south. It's a light, airy space under a soaring groined vault ceiling.