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Crewe-by-Farndon

Crewe-by-Farndon is a settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Farndon, in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

Crewe-by-Farndon
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The place

Crewe-by-Farndon is a settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Farndon, in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 45. Crewe was formerly a township in the parish of Farndon, in 1866 Crewe became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 2015 the parish was abolished and merged with Farndon.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crewe-by-Farndon

7 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
    Holt Castle

    Holt Castle was a medieval castle on the Welsh–English border, by the banks of the River Dee, in the village of Holt, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Work began on the castle in the 13th century during the Welsh Wars.

    1.6 km · Grade II* listed building in Wrexham. Castle in Holt, north Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Farndon Bridge

    Farndon Bridge, also known as Holt Bridge, crosses the River Dee and the England–Wales border between the villages of Farndon, Cheshire, England and Holt, Wrexham, Wales. The bridge, which was built in the mid-14th century, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England and by Cadw as a designated Grade I listed building and scheduled monument.

    2.1 km · medieval bridge on the England-Wales border · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Edith's Church, Shocklach

    St Edith's Church, Shocklach, stands at the end of an isolated lane running toward the River Dee about 1 mile to the north of the village of Shocklach, Cheshire, England. It is a small Norman church, and is one of the oldest ecclesiastical buildings in Cheshire.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed church in Shocklach, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lower Carden Hall

    Lower Carden Hall is a historic house in the civil parish of Carden, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Chad's Church, Farndon

    St Chad's Church is in the village of Farndon, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Malpas.

    2.1 km · church in Farndon, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Stretton Hall

    Stretton Hall is a country house in the parish of Stretton in Cheshire, England. It was built in about 1763 for John Leche.

    2.6 km · country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stretton Lower Hall

    Stretton Lower Hall is in the parish of Stretton in Cheshire, England. It was built in 1660, on a site that was originally moated.

    2.9 km · grade II listed English country house in Stretton, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Crewe-by-Farndon

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 30 km · Manchester (MAN), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 101 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Crewe-by-Farndon
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Crewe-by-Farndon
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Crewe-by-Farndon
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Crewe-by-Farndon

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    375 km

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Around it

Next door to Crewe-by-Farndon

Crewe-by-Farndon is 38 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Bartonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Strettonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK2.9 km
  • Shocklach Oviatt and Districtcivil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England2.7 km
  • Castletowndeserted village in Cheshire, United Kingdom2.2 km