Museum · Woodford · Greater Manchester

Avro Heritage Museum

Avro Heritage Museum is an aviation museum. This one is within Woodford’s built-up area. Nearby, Lyme Hall (6.5 km) heads a list of 56 within 15 km.

Photo: Avro Heritage Museum, Trevor Harris (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Woodford

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 35%

#2,958 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 17–20°C

In brief

Museum in Woodford

Inside Woodford

Avro Heritage Museum is inside Woodford’s built-up area, with 9 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Seasons and weather

The warmest afternoons in Woodford run June to September, at 17–20°C.

Jan7° / 2°74 mm

Feb7° / 2°71 mm

Mar10° / 3°62 mm

Apr13° / 4°60 mm

May16° / 7°62 mm

Jun19° / 10°74 mm

Jul20° / 12°83 mm

Aug20° / 12°85 mm

Sep17° / 10°79 mm

Oct13° / 7°97 mm

Nov10° / 4°87 mm

Dec7° / 2°96 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Woodford, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Woodford. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Woodford’s full climate →

About

Avro Heritage Museum

2 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Woodford
Official site: avroheritagemuseum.co.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Around Avro Heritage Museum, mapped

Each numbered point is one of the places listed below; Avro Heritage Museum is the orange one.

Towns near it

Towns close to Avro Heritage Museum

By population, Wythenshawe leads the 8 with 97,665. Every town below has its own grades, prices and places to visit.

1 · It’s in town

Woodford

2,241 people · 15 places to visit

2 · 1.3 km northeast of it

Poynton

13,015 people · 14 places to visit

3 · 1.7 km north of it

Bramhall

17,201 people · 20 places to visit

4 · 2 km west of it

Dean Row

859 people · 10 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Avro Heritage Museum is	People	Places to visit
Woodford	It’s in town	2,241	15
Poynton	1.3 km northeast of it	13,015	14
Bramhall	1.7 km north of it	17,201	20
Dean Row	2 km west of it	859	10
Cheadle Hulme	2.1 km northwest of it	24,782	17
Wilmslow	3.1 km west of it	25,716	18
Prestbury	3.2 km south of it	2,629	15
Wythenshawe	3.3 km northwest of it	97,665	23

Make a day of it

Places to add to Avro Heritage Museum

Within 15 km are 56 places, among them 6 historic houses, a museum and an art gallery.

Historic house · National TrustLyme Hall6.5 km away 2

Historic houseBramall Hall4.4 km away 3

Historic houseAdlington Hall1.7 km away 4

MuseumAnson Engine Museum4.4 km away 5

Historic houseMottram Hall3 km away 6

Historic house · National TrustHare Hill5.7 km away 7

Art galleryThe Whitworth15 km away 8

Historic houseAbney Hall8.2 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Avro Heritage Museum, answered

Where is Avro Heritage Museum?

Avro Heritage Museum is in Woodford, Greater Manchester, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Avro Heritage Museum?

Aviation museum in England.

When is the best time to visit Avro Heritage Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Woodford, with afternoon highs of 17–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Avro Heritage Museum?

Within 15 km: Lyme Hall (6.5 km), Bramall Hall (4.4 km), Adlington Hall (1.7 km) and Anson Engine Museum (4.4 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Avro Heritage Museum: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Lyme Hall: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bramall Hall: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adlington Hall: John Swallow, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Anson Engine Museum: Photograph by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (www.clemrutter.net)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Mottram Hall: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Hare Hill: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
The Whitworth: Charlesdrakew, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Abney Hall: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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