Freehay
Freehay is a village and former hamlet in the civil parish of Cheadle, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.
Freehay is a village and former hamlet in the civil parish of Cheadle, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Brookhouses is located to the southeast of Cheadle.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Freehay
5 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.
- 01Cheadle
Cheadle is a market town and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands District of Staffordshire, England. It is located between Uttoxeter, Leek, Ashbourne and Stoke-on-Trent.
2 km · small market town near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia - 02St Mary's and All Saints' Church, Checkley
St Mary's and All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in the village of Checkley, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
3.6 km · church in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St. Giles' Catholic Church, Cheadle
St Giles' Church is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. The Grade I listed Gothic Revival church was designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and built between 1841 and 1846, funded by the Catholic 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, John Talbot.
2.2 km · church in Staffordshire Moorlands, UK · Wikipedia - 04Woodhead Hall
Woodhead Hall is a country house at Cheadle in Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building.
3.4 km · country house in Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Heath House
The Heath House is a Gothic Revival mansion and estate located near the village of Tean in Staffordshire, England.
2.2 km · building in Tean, Checkley, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Freehay
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 46 km · Manchester (MAN), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km
- Stations
- Tean railway station, 3.1 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Freehay54 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Freehay60 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Freehay54 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Freehay
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 Freehay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAlso, you can use the cable car (Skyride) to get between the Park Entrance, Forbidden Valley which is an alien-themed area and Fountain Square, for The Towers, The World of David Walliams (one of the two children's areas of the park) and the Dark Forest.
From Wikivoyage: Alton Towers, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Freehay
Freehay is 55 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Checkleyvillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Bradley in the Moorsvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Upper Teanvillage in Staffordshire, England2.1 km