Tudor Grange

Shopping and dining

For day-to-day essentials there is a supermarket less than 10 minutes’ walk from Tudor Grange and several convenience stores close by.

In Bury, The Rock and Mill Gate shopping centres boast a wide selection of high-street names, including chain and department stores, and independent retailers. The town’s award-winning open-air market takes place three days a week and is reputed to be the largest in the north of England, with around 370 stalls.

For world-class shopping, Manchester lies just around 30 minutes’ drive from the development via the A56. The Arndale Centre in the heart of the city and the Trafford Centre, off junctions 9 and 10 of the M60, attract thousands of visitors each year, while the Northern Quarter is the place to go for independent and niche boutiques, designers and craft studios.

A wide selection of bars, cafés and restaurants can be found in Bury, with menus to suit all tastes. Beyond Bury, tempting destinations include the award-winning Slattery Patissier and Chocolatier in Whitefield, which offers afternoon tea and casual dining. Further afield, Manchester is home to many award-winning restaurants from fine dining destinations such as The French, which has four AA rosettes and Manchester House, which has three.

Leisure

Tudor Grange is ideally situated for enjoying the many opportunities available in Bury, and the spectacular countryside of the West Pennine Moors.

The town’s heritage can be seen throughout its streets – in the historic buildings, museums and galleries, including Bury Art Museum, Bury Transport Museum and the steam trains of the East Lancashire Railway. However, Bury is also a vibrant modern-day destination, with a live music, drama and comedy venue in The Met, a leisure centre offering a range of facilities and fitness classes, and a multiplex cinema.

Open space close to Tudor Grange includes Whitehead Park, around a mile away, which has a children’s play area, tennis courts, croquet lawns and football pitches, and Clarence Park, which is less than three miles away and has a skate park, play area, bandstand, lake and bowling green.

Beyond Bury town centre, Burrs Country Park lies to the north, around 10 minutes’ drive from the development, while the West Pennine Moors can be reached in around 15 minutes by car. The moors cover 90 square miles of Greater Manchester and Lancashire, providing a beautiful and rugged backdrop to sporting activities such as hiking, cycling, horse riding and climbing.

Education

A number of well-regarded schools can be found in the local area, including Greenhill Primary School, St Stephen’s Church of England Primary School, St Andrews CE Primary School and Lowercroft Primary School for younger children. The nearest secondary school to Tudor Grange is St Gabriel’s RC High School, two miles away, but Bury Church of England High School and The Derby High School are also easily reachable in less than 10 minutes by car.

Several independent schools are also located nearby, including Bury Grammar School Boys and Bury Grammar School Girls.

Post-16 education is provided by Bury College, which offers a range of apprenticeships, vocational and academic courses, while universities can be found in nearby Bolton, Salford and Manchester.

Transport

Tudor Grange is ideally situated for taking advantage of the excellent road and public transport links the area offers. Bury town centre is just a few minutes’ drive away via the A58 and there are also frequent public bus services along this road, which is less than five minutes’ walk from the development. Rochdale is around 25 minutes’ drive away and Bolton around 10 minutes’ drive away, also via the A58.

Burnley is 35 minutes by car from these new homes in Bury, via the A56, while in the other direction Manchester can also be reached in around 35 minutes by the A56, or the A58. The M62, which links Liverpool, Hull, Manchester and Leeds, is around six miles away.

The Metrolink network serves Bury, with trams stopping in the town centre at Bury Interchange, two miles from Tudor Grange. The station is the terminus of two lines – Bury to East Didsbury and Bury to Piccadilly, Manchester’s principal railway station.

Manchester Airport is 35 minutes’ drive away via the M66 and M60.