Bollington
Bollington is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury.
Bollington is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury. In the Middle Ages, it was part of the Earl of Chester's manor of Macclesfield and the ancient parish of Prestbury. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 7,944 and the built up area had a population of 7,235.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Bollington
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.
- 01Lyme Park
Grade II* listed country estate and park in Cheshire East, United Kingdom
5.1 km · Wikipedia - 02King Edward Street Chapel, Macclesfield
Church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK
4.7 km · Wikipedia - 03
- 04Macclesfield United Reformed Church
Grade II listed church in Macclesfield, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK
5 km · Wikipedia - 05
- 06St George's Church, Macclesfield
Grade II listed church in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK
5.3 km · Wikipedia - 07
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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.
Getting to Bollington
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 14 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 50 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 69 km
- Stations
- Macclesfield railway station, 4.7 km · Prestbury railway station, 3.5 km · Adlington railway station, 3.7 km · Macclesfield Hibel Road railway station, 4.3 km
- Liverpool → Bollington59 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bollington67 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bollington74 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bollington
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 Bollington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAfter taking in the splendid scenery and trekking to your heart's content, either camping out overnight or staying in Buxton, you might want to continue on to Sheffield, another post-industrial Northern city with more to offer than that description suggests.
From Wikivoyage: Macclesfield, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bollington
Bollington is 22 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Macclesfieldtown and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK5 km
- Prestburyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England3.5 km
- Adlingtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK3.5 km
- Pott Shrigleyvillage in Cheshire, England1.4 km
- Rainowvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.4 km
- Higher Hurdsfieldvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, UK3 km