Explore Trafford

The home of Manchester United Football Club and Emirates Old Trafford, Trafford is widely held as an international sporting destination, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. For adrenaline junkies Chill Factore is the ideal tourist destination, the UK’s longest and widest real snow indoor slope, at 100 metres wide and 180 metres long.  

If history is what you're looking for, head to the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal and the Imperial War Museum North, an extraordinary exhibition space that delivers an immersive experience documenting the voices of ordinary people of over a century of war, plus, while you're there, you can make your way over to the cobbles for a tour of the world's longest running soap, Coronation Street. 

Trafford boasts history and heritage with over 200 listed buildings, including the beautiful 18th-century Dunham Massey, and is home to a plethora of outstanding nature reserves. Highlighting the natural beauty and countryside in Trafford, Sale Water Park includes an incredible 52-acre lake which is also the site of the Broad Ees Dole wildlife refuge, a local nature reserve which provides a home for migratory birds. 

When it comes to entertainment, and shopping, The Trafford Centre has it all under one roof. With hundreds of stores, including the first Selfridges outside of London, a 20-screen Odeon multiplex cinema, a Laser Quest arena, Paradise Island miniature golf and a Namco Funscape arcade and bowling alley and Europe’s largest food court, it really does cater for all tastes.  

Plus, Trafford comprises the towns of Sale, Stretford, Altrincham, and Urmston, meaning there’s even more to explore.  

This campaign has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund, under the Government’s Welcome Back Fund initiative. For further details click here.