Hidden gems: Things to dos in Manchester

Discover the city's hidden treasures—remarkable spots that are relatively undiscovered but offer exceptional experiences. Our selection criteria? A rating of 4.5 or higher with fewer than 150 reviews. Explore these lesser-known yet outstanding places that promise a delightful visit in Manchester. This list contains 43 places from Things to do category.

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Gore Brook
Park
👍👍 Full of student corpses
5.00 (8 reviews)
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Reflective Passage
Tourist attraction
👍👍 This is a truly special place & shows what you can do with a back lane anywhere- bravo
5.00 (8 reviews)
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Ashburne Tree Man
Tourist attraction
👍👍 Absolutely bangin tree. Really proper good x
5.00 (5 reviews)
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
Hindu temple
👍👍 No words to describe Hinduism has the deepest root of existence
4.90 (94 reviews)
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Annai Tatha Jalaja Avva Saplings
Memorial park
👍👍 An excellent idea to remember our loved ones by planting seeds. May the seeds planted here become strong 🌲 and last a millennia.
4.90 (45 reviews)
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Contemporary Six - The Gallery
Art gallery
👍👍 A great gallery, showcasing work by a variety of quality artists. Friendly and approchable staff and owner. Well worth a visit.
4.90 (39 reviews)
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Ryebank Fields
Park
👍👍 Beautiful little spot so far untouched by developers. I hear someone’s trying to change that and build on the fields. What an absolute loss that would be! There’s a campaign on the go to try and stop it from happening and I hope they do well.
4.90 (29 reviews)
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Rochdale Canal Lake
Historical landmark
👍👍 Great environment and green area to relax for short time or during passing the lake to another place. I recommend visiting the place for breath taking
4.90 (9 reviews)
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Clayton Hall
Museum
👍👍 Lovely little house to explore with lots of things you can actually pick up and look through. The cafe is nice and very affordable. Good cake!
4.80 (115 reviews)
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Cafe Blah
Coffee shop
👍 Think it might want to consider changing its name to Cafe Blag or Cafe Blasé as it’s seemingly never open even on its own (opening hours) terms. It’s only been open once out of half a dozen attempts to visit. Shame as it’s a good concept and ideal for the area and fantastic location in which it sit...
4.80 (71 reviews)
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The Manchester City Stadium Tour
Tourist attraction
👍👍 Absolutely amazing, Done the stadium and academy tour. For the stadium tour we had tour guide Steve W and Mike. The knowledge and passion they both have for the club is next to none they made the stadium tour very interesting and fun for the kids also. For the academy tour we had tour guides graeme...
4.80 (49 reviews)
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Glade of Light
Memorial park
👍👍 A beautiful, enigmatic, and important memorial to those who were killed and injured in the terrorist bombing in the nearby Manchester Arena in 2017. It's designed as an open city space, with a ring of marble memorial stones and paths and planting amongst them. A place to come and remember, a plac...
4.80 (44 reviews)
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Saul Hay Gallery
Art gallery
👍👍 Great small gallery of contemporary art next to canal basin.
4.80 (40 reviews)
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Rochdale Canal Lock 92
Historical landmark
👍👍 It was great to revisit Lock 92 after walking the entire length of the Rochdale Canal In sections.
4.80 (21 reviews)
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Heaton Park Boating Lake
Park
👍👍 Recommended please for families
4.80 (8 reviews)
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Chorlton Ees Nature Reserve
Nature preserve
👍 Wooded area, where all routes seem to lead to the Mersey.
4.70 (106 reviews)
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Sacred Trinity Church
Church
👍👍 Quiet time in a busy city. Lovely.
4.70 (76 reviews)
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Boating Lake
Park
👍 Cottaging Central, after 9pm beware! Twice I heard groaning and slapping noises from the bushes. Lovely lake tho, hence the 4 stars..
4.70 (50 reviews)
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West Gorton Community Park
Park
👍👍 I worked on the regeneration of West Gorton Estate from its early days. To see the transformation now capped off by the fab park is brilliant. It looks a million dollars, the community should be very proud and I am so pleased to see the change in the whole area.
4.70 (42 reviews)
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