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Barnton, Cheshire

Barnton is a civil parish and village, just outside the town of Northwich, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Barnton, Cheshire
Barnton, Cheshire · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Barnton is a civil parish and village, just outside the town of Northwich, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies north and east of the Trent & Mersey Canal which goes through two tunnels to the west of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barnton, Cheshire

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Mary's Church, Weaverham

    St Mary's Ecumenical Church is a Church of England / Methodist Local Ecumenical Project in the village of Weaverham, Cheshire, England. The church is the parish church of Weaverham and Acton Bridge and part of the Methodist Northwich and Winsford Circuit.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Weaverham, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Acton swing bridge

    Acton Swing Bridge is a swing bridge spanning the River Weaver in the village of Acton Bridge in north Cheshire, England. First operated in 1933, it carries the A49 trunk road.

    3.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Helen Witton Church, Northwich

    St Helen Witton Church, Northwich, is in the centre of the town of Northwich, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hefferston Grange

    Hefferston Grange is a former country house to the southwest of the village of Weaverham, Cheshire, England. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    3.2 km · country house in Weaverham, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St John's Church, Hartford

    St John the Baptist Church is in the village of Hartford, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is the Anglican parish church of Hartford and Greenbank.

    2.4 km · grade II listed church in Hartford, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Little Leigh

    St Michael and All Angels Church is in the village of Little Leigh, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    2.3 km · Grade II listed church in Little Leigh, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lion Salt Works

    The Lion Salt Works is the UK's last remaining open pan salt works, in Marston, near Northwich, Cheshire, England. It closed as a works in 1986 and is now preserved as a museum.

    3.8 km · salt works in Cheshire, UK, preserved as a museum · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cogshall Hall

    Cogshall Hall is a country house near the village of Comberbach, Cheshire, England. It was built in about 1830 for Peter Jackson.

    3.4 km · Grade II* listed building in Comberbach, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Christ Church, Barnton

    Christ Church is in the village of Barnton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Great Budworth, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.

    400 m · grade II listed church in Barnton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hartford Bridge, Cheshire

    The Hartford Bridge, or Blue Bridge, is a single-span road bridge crossing the River Weaver at Hartford, Cheshire in England. The bridge is located on the A556 as part of the Northwich bypass.

    3.5 km · bridge near Hartford, Cheshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Barnton, Cheshire

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 20 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 21 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 89 km
Stations
Northwich railway station, 3.6 km · Acton Bridge railway station, 3.5 km · Hartford railway station, 2.8 km · Greenbank railway station, 2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Barnton, Cheshire
    88 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barnton, Cheshire
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Barnton, Cheshire
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barnton, Cheshire

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barnton, Cheshire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    273 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    343 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    367 km

If you know how people move in Barnton, Cheshire – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Barnton, Cheshire

Barnton, Cheshire is 32 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Northwichtown and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK2.3 km
  • Hartfordvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England2.4 km
  • Great Budworthvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK3.8 km
  • Marstonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England3.7 km
  • Weaverhamvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK1.9 km
  • Comberbachvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK3.9 km