Crewe
Crewe is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England.
Crewe is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 55,318 and the built-up area had 76,437. The town is best known as a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works; for many years, it was a major railway engineering facility for manufacturing and overhauling locomotives, but is now much reduced in size. From 1946 until 2002, it was also the home of Rolls-Royce motor car production. The Pyms Lane factory on the west of the town now exclusively produces Bentley motor cars. Crewe is 158 miles (254 km) north-west of London, 28 miles (45 km) south of Manchester city centre and 31 miles (50 km) south-east of Liverpool city centre.
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Worth seeing in and around Crewe
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.
- 01Alexandra Stadium
Gresty Road, also known as the Alexandra Stadium and currently known as the Mornflake Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Crewe, Cheshire, England. It is the home ground of Crewe Alexandra and has an all-seated capacity of 10,153.
1.3 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Crewe Hall
Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire, it is listed at grade I. Built in 1615–36 for Sir Randolph Crewe, it was one of the county's largest houses in the 17th century, and was said to have "brought London into Cheshire".
3.3 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lyceum Theatre
The Lyceum Theatre is an Edwardian theatre in Heath Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It originated as a converted Roman Catholic Church in 1876.
0 m · theatre in Crewe, England · Wikipedia - 04All Saints' Church, Weston, Cheshire
All Saints' Church is in Main Road, Weston, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Nantwich, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
4.5 km · church in Weston, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Haslington Hall
Haslington Hall is a country house located in open countryside 1 km east of the village of Haslington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
4.2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06St Leonard's Church, Warmingham
St Leonard's Church is in the village of Warmingham, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
5.2 km · church in Warmingham, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Matthew's Church, Haslington
St Matthew's Church is in the village of Haslington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.1 km · grade II listed church in Haslington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wistaston
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is in the village of Wistaston, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.3 km · grade II listed church in Wistaston, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Oswald's Church, Worleston
St Oswald's Church is in Church Road, Worleston, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Nantwich, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
5.6 km · Grade II listed church in the parish of Aston juxta Mondrum, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Christ Church, Wheelock
Christ Church is in Crewe Road, Wheelock, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
5.1 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Crewe
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 30 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · East Midlands (EMA), 80 km
- Stations
- Crewe railway station, 1.2 km · Worleston railway station, 5 km · Crewe bus station, 300 m
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Crewe88 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Crewe78 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Crewe98 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Crewe
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 Crewe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Crewe
Crewe is 45 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Haslingtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, UK2.8 km
- Wistastonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, UK3 km
- Minshull Vernonhamlet and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK5.1 km
- Willastonvillage and civil parish near Nantwich in Cheshire East, UK3.2 km
- Wybunburyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England6 km
- Hassallvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK6 km