Farndon
Farndon is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Farndon is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is on the banks of the River Dee, which here forms the England–Wales border. The Welsh village of Holt lies just over the River Dee from Farndon, on the other side of the medieval Farndon Bridge. Farndon is 8 miles (13 km) south of the cathedral city of Chester.
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Worth seeing in and around Farndon
6 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.
- 01Holt 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.
800 m · Grade II* listed building in Wrexham. Castle in Holt, north Wales · Wikipedia - 02Farndon 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.
200 m · medieval bridge on the England-Wales border · Wikipedia - 03Churton Hall
not to be confused with Chirton Hall, Northumberland Churton Hall is a country house in the parish of Churton, Cheshire, England. The date of building is uncertain.
2 km · Grade II listed English country house in Churton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St 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.
100 m · church in Farndon, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Stretton Hall
Stretton Hall is a country house in the parish of Stretton in Cheshire, England. It was built in about 1763 for John Leche.
3.9 km · country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Stretton 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.
3.9 km · grade II listed English country house in Stretton, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Farndon
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 28 km · Manchester (MAN), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 103 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Farndon104 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £13–17
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Farndon95 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Farndon23 km · quickest by road, 47 min · £3–4
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for 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 Farndon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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).
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If you know how people move in Farndon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Farndon
Farndon is 35 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Churtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK2 km
- Crewe-by-Farndonvillage in Cheshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Strettonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK3.9 km