Church Lawton
Church Lawton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and in the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.
Church Lawton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and in the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. Its eastern boundary forms part of the county boundary between Cheshire and Staffordshire. As the village is near Stoke-on-Trent, it has a Stoke postcode. In addition to ribbon development connecting Kidsgrove with Scholar Green, the parish also contains the hamlets of Lawton Gate, Lawton Heath and Lawton Heath End, and the Lawton Hall estate. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire parish was 2,201.
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Worth seeing in and around Church Lawton
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.
- 01Little Moreton Hall
Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a manor house 4.5 miles south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–1508 and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610.
3.3 km · moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton in England, built between about 1504 and 1610. · Wikipedia - 02All Saints Church, Church Lawton
All Saints’ Church stands on a mound close to Lawton Hall in the small village of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton.
0 m · Grade II* listed church in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Christ Church, Alsager
Christ Church Alsager is in the town of Alsager, Cheshire, England. Its mission is to love God and to love others.
3.3 km · Grade II* listed church in Alsager, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Mary Magdalene's Church, Alsager
St Mary Magdalene's Church is in Crewe Road, Alsager, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
2.7 km · Grade II listed church in Alsager, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05All Saints Church, Scholar Green
All Saints Church is in the village of Scholar Green in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
1.7 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Rode Hall
Rode Hall, a Georgian country house, is the seat of the Wilbraham family, members of the landed gentry in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. The estate, with the original timber-framed manor house, was purchased by the Wilbrahams from a cousin, Randle Rode in 1669.
1.6 km · English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Lawton Hall
Lawton Hall is a former country house to the east of the village of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. The building has since been used as a hotel, then a school, and has since been converted into separate residential units.
200 m · grade II listed English country house in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Bathpool Park
Bathpool Park is a public park in a rural area between Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. The park became notorious in 1975 as the location for the murder of Lesley Whittle.
2.9 km · park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Kidsgrove Town Hall
Kidsgrove Town Hall is a municipal building in Liverpool Road in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Kidsgrove Town Council, is locally listed.
2.4 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 10Hall Green Branch
The Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England. It runs for one mile from Kidsgrove to Hall Green, where it makes an end-on junction with the Macclesfield Canal at Hall Green Stop Lock.
1.7 km · canal in east Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Church Lawton
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 28 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · East Midlands (EMA), 70 km
- Stations
- Kidsgrove railway station, 2.1 km · Alsager railway station, 2.2 km · Mow Cop and Scholar Green railway station, 3.1 km
- Liverpool → Church Lawton58 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Church Lawton77 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Church Lawton73 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Church Lawton
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 Church Lawton. 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.
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Next door to Church Lawton
Church Lawton is 43 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alsagertown and civil parish in Cheshire East, England2.5 km
- Kidsgrovetown and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK1.8 km
- Rode Heathvillage in Cheshire East, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Scholar Greenvillage in Cheshire East, Cheshire, UK1.5 km
- Mow Copvillage in Cheshire and Staffordshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Odd Rodecivil parish in Cheshire East, England2.1 km