How to find The Christie
Finding your way to The Christie
Main routes to the Christie
From Stockport and East by motorway
- Take the M60 Ring Road clockwise and leave at Junction 5. Turn right at major traffic lights onto Barlow Moor Road A5145 (towards Didsbury). Turn left at next traffic lights onto Palatine Road B5167. Go through one set of major traffic lights. The Christie is shortly after these. Turn right into Oak Road.
From the North by motorway
- Take the M60 Ring Road anti-clockwise and follow signs for Manchester Airport.
- Move to left lane and exit M60, Junction 5. Follow sign for Chester, Manchester Airport (M56), B'ham, A5103. Stay in left lane and take first exit from A5103 signed Northenden & Sale Moor.
- At end of slip road, turn left at traffic lights at the Britannia Airport Hotel onto Palatine Road B5166 which becomes B5167. Then follow directions below From A5103.
From the South by motorway
- Take the M56, following signs to Manchester and then City Centre A5103.
- Look out for a sign that says 'motorway ends in half a mile'. Shortly after this, move to left lane, take the slip road to Sale Moor and Northenden, signed B5166.
- Keep in right hand lane of slip road. At the traffic lights, the road turns sharp right under the bridge, passing the Britannia Airport Hotel on your left. Follow directions From A5103.
From A5103 ...
- Go through Northenden shopping area, over the River Mersey and past the golf club.
- Go through 2 major sets of traffic lights. Shortly after the second set, there is a sign for The Christie. Turn right into Oak Road. The hospital/car park is about 200 yards along the road on the left. For the Kinnaird Road car park, turn left at the end of Oak Road onto Wilmslow Road. Kinnaird Road is the second on the right.
Useful
links
- The AA - Pick travel and Leisure
- route planner (use The Christie as your destination)
- MapQuest - Driving
directions (use Withington Manchester and Hospital postcode
M20 4BX)
- multiMAP.com - Maps
and driving directions by postcode (Hospital postcode M20
4BX)
- Traffic England : Highways Agency - Latest Manchester traffic reports
Parking
The car park is in front of the main entrance in Oak Road (194 spaces). There is a smaller car park in Kinnaird Road (78 spaces) and 27 spaces for patients going to Radioisotopes in the multi-storey on Palatine Rd. There is a Pay & Display system. Charges are:
- Up to 10 minutes (drop off) free
- Up to 4 hours £1.50
- Over 4 hours £2.50
The machines take £1, 50p, 20p and 10p coins, but do not give change. Car park charges are reviewed periodically.
People who have difficulty walking far can be driven to the drop-off area at the Oak Road entrance. There are disabled parking spaces in the Oak Road car park.
Outpatients can be dropped off at the outpatient entrance on Wilmslow Road, where there is a pull-in bay or you can come to the Oak Road entrance and walk through The Christie.