Sale (England)

By plane

Sale is 15 minutes from Manchester Airport or around 45 minutes from Liverpool airport

By tram

Sale is served by the excellent Metrolink tram system from Manchester city centre and other destinations in Greater Manchester. The town has three tram stops roughly half a mile apart: Brooklands, Sale, and Dane Road. Direct 12-minute services operate to both Bury via Manchester City Centre and Ethiad Campus via Manchester Piccadilly for mainline trains, this gives a 6-minute service to Manchester city centre. In the other direction there is a 6-minute service to Altrincham.
On Sundays between 07:00 and 22:30 there is a 12-minute service that runs to the Etihad Campus, there are no trams direct to Bury from Sale on a Sunday. If travelling on a weekend and particularly a Sunday it is worth checking that there are not alterations to the service, again as part of the Metrolink expansion/improvement works.
Sale Water Park also has a stop on the Manchester Airport line. Trams are every 12-minutes and there is a Park & Ride facility.
Metrolink tickets must be purchased from machines on the platform before you travel.

By car

Sale is less than a mile from junction 7 of the M60.
The A56 runs to both Manchester and Altrincham.

By bus

Sale has many bus services including connections to both Manchester and Altrincham.

• The Bridgewater CanalA pleasant walk through along the towpath, north to Stretford and Manchester or south to Altrincham. Passes next to the Bridge Inn pub and runs parallel and adjacent to the Tram line for much of its route.

• Worthington Park

  address: Broad Road
  Over a hundred years old and still the centre of Sale's wildlife, in amongst the pleasant grounds, there are many breeds of birds and squirrels on view. Also, a skate ramp, play areas and statue to the Physicist JP Joule

• Sale Water Park

  phone: +44 161 881-5639
  The water park is open throughout the year, allowing canoeing, boating, surfing and a host of water based activities. Lessons and guides can be pre-booked. Very popular with dog walkers, joggers and bird watchers and has its own angling club. Now has its own tram stop (On the Manchester Airport line) and park and ride facility

• Walton Park

  address: Raglan Road, Sale
  Playing fields and park adjacent to Bridgewater Canal; miniature railway giving rides every Sunday

• Sale FC Rugby Club

  phone: +44 788 444 3727
  address: Heywood Road, Brooklands, Sale, Greater Manchester, M33 3WB
  One of the world's oldest rugby union clubs, Sale FC is a "Member Owned" Club founded in 1861 and they have played at Heywood Road since 1905/06. They play in the in National League 1 as of Sep 2019.

Sale is not normally thought of as a shopping destination although it does have plenty of supermarkets and other shops for one's everyday needs.
Unfortunately, the nearby Trafford Centre or Manchester City Centre are the preferred destinations.

Sale has a wide variety of restaurants and take-aways with food from all over the world.

• Deckers on the Water

  phone: +44 161 962-0118
  address: Sale Water Park, Rifle Road

• Jackson's Boat

  phone: +44 161 905-2647
  address: Rifle Road, Sale
  Jackson’s Boat is situated between Sale Water Park and Chorlton Water park on the bank of the River Mersey.

Within a short walking distance to the three tram stations there are a number of pubs.
Sale Station Kings Ransom,
Slug and Lettuce,
JP Joules,
Waterside,
The Bank,
The Bulls Head
Brooklands Station The Brook,
The Little Bee,
The Sale Hotel,
The Brooklands Tap,
The Belmore Hotel,

• The Bridge Inn

  address: Dane Road, Sale

• Premier Inn

  phone: +44 871 527 8716
  address: Carrington Ln

• Normanhurst Hotel

  phone: +44 161 973-1982
  address: 195 Brooklands Rd

• Lennox Lea Hotel

  phone: +44 161 973-1764
  address: Irlam Rd, Sale

• Manchester
• Altrincham