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Cranage

Cranage is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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The place

Cranage is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 UK Census, the population of the civil parish was 1,131 which had risen to 1,184 by the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cranage

4 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 Luke's Church, Holmes Chapel

    St Luke's Church is in the village of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England on the A50 road at its junction with the A535 road. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    1.6 km · church in Holmes Chapel, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Blackden Hall

    Blackden Hall is a country house to the northeast of the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It dates from the later part of the 16th century, and there have been later alterations.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed house in the civil parish of Goostrey, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Luke's Church, Goostrey

    St Luke's Church is in the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton, in a combined benefice with St Peter, Swettenham.

    3.1 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley

    St John the Evangelist's Church is in the small village of Byley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.1 km · grade II listed church in Byley, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · 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 Cranage

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 16 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 35 km · East Midlands (EMA), 82 km
Stations
Holmes Chapel railway station, 2.1 km · Goostrey railway station, 3.3 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cranage
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cranage
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £11–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cranage
    88 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cranage

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 Cranage. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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: Congleton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    275 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    318 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    354 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    379 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cranage

Cranage is 31 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Holmes Chapelvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK1.6 km
  • Goostreyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK3.1 km
  • Twemlowcivil parish in Cheshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Allostockvillage and civil parish in Chester West and Cheshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Sprostonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Byleyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK3 km