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Cheeranchira

Cheeranchira is a suburb of Changanasserry town, Kerala State in India.

Cheeranchira
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The place

Cheeranchira is a suburb of Changanasserry town, Kerala State in India. It is around 4 km from the town and is one of the first settlements in Changanasserry Taluk. Situated at present within the Vazhappally Grampanchayat, it shares its borders with Vakathanam panchayat as well. The village is the tenth ward in Vazhappally Gramapanchayat and is represented at present by Sashin Thalakulam.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cheeranchira

9 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
    Vazhappally Maha Siva Temple

    Vazhappally Maha Siva Temple is a Hindu temple located in Vazhappally near Changanassery in Kottayam district in the Indian state of Kerala. The temple is administered by the Travancore Devaswom Board.

    5 km · shiva temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary

    Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary is situated at Kumarakom in Kottayam taluk of Kottayam district in the Indian state of Kerala, on the banks of Vembanad Lake. Set in the Kerala Backwaters, the bird sanctuary is visited by many migratory bird species.

    5.7 km · national park in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral

    St. Mary's Syro Malabar Metropolitan Cathedral, also known as Valiyapally, is the cathedral of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Changanassery and also a Marian pilgrimage centre in Kerala, India.

    5 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Morkulangara Devi Temple

    Morkulangara Devi Temple is a famous Hindu temple in the Kottayam District of Kerala state in India. The presiding deity is Bhagavathy.

    3.3 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thrikodithanam Mahavishnu Temple

    Thrikodithanam Mahavishnu Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and located in Thrikkodithanam, Kottayam District, Kerala, South India. Constructed in the Kerala style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desam dedicated to Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu, who is worshipped as Mahavishnu.

    4.4 km · 11th century circular plan Vishnu temple in Changanassery, Kerala · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Neerazhi Palace

    Neerazhi Palace was the royal palace of the Thekkumkur kingdom. Palace is located at Puzhavathu in Changanassery.

    2.2 km · building in Changanassery in Kottayam district, India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Perunna Subrahmanya Swami Temple

    Perunna Subrahmanya Swami Temple is a Hindu temple located at Perunna neighbourhood in Changanacherry. The deity of the temple is Subrahmanya Swami, one of the three sons of Lord Shiva.

    5.9 km · Hindu temple in Kottayam district, Kerala · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kalarickal Manikanda Swami Temple

    Kalarickal Manikanda Swami temple is an ancient temple in Thrikkodithanam village in Kottayam District, Kerala, India. Lord Siva is the main prathista.

    3.1 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lakshmipuram Palace

    Lakshmipuram Palace is the royal palace of the Parappanad royal families at Changanassery. Palace is located at Puzhavathu near to Sree vaikunteswara santhana gopala moorthi Temple.

    5.7 km · Palace in Kottayam district, Keralam, India · 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.

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Getting to Cheeranchira

Airports
Cochin (COK), 77 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 117 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 180 km
Stations
Changanasseri railway station, 3.7 km
  • Kochi → Cheeranchira
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · ₹520–650
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Cheeranchira
    119 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · ₹910–1,140
  • Coimbatore → Cheeranchira
    175 km · quickest by road, 4h 58m · ₹1,650–2,060
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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 Cheeranchira. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAuto rickshaws and taxis are available at the station.

From Wikivoyage: Kallooppara, 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
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    65 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    70 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    94 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    106 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    109 km

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