Gawsworth
Gawsworth is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Gawsworth is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,705. It is one of the eight ancient parishes of Macclesfield Hundred. Twenty acres of the civil parish were transferred to Macclesfield civil parish in 1936.
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Worth seeing in and around Gawsworth
8 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.
- 01Moss Rose
Moss Rose, known as the Leasing.com Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which is the home ground of Macclesfield F.C., and the former home of Macclesfield Town F.C., a club wound up in September 2020. The stadium, 1 mile south of the town centre, is on the west side of the A523 London Road.
3.9 km · association football ground in Macclesfield, England · Wikipedia - 02Christ Church, Eaton
Christ Church is in Macclesfield Road, the A536 road, to the south of the village of Eaton, Cheshire East, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
4 km · Grade II listed church in Eaton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St James' Church, Gawsworth
St James' Church is in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, and is sited near Gawsworth Hall. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
900 m · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bosley Lock Flight
Bosley Lock Flight is a flight of twelve canal locks, situated on the Macclesfield Canal at Bosley, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. The locks are substantially built with stone blocks, and unusually for narrow locks have mitre gates at both ends.
3.1 km · flight of locks on the Macclesfield Canal in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Gawsworth New Hall
Gawsworth New Hall is a country house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
1.1 km · country house in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Gawsworth Old Hall
Gawsworth Old Hall is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is a timber-framed house in the Cheshire black-and-white style.
900 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Gawsworth Old Rectory
Gawsworth Old Rectory is a medieval house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is known for the rare survival of its "open hall" and the notable 1873 restoration by Richard Norman Shaw, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
1 km · Grade I listed house in Gawsworth, Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08St Michael's Church, North Rode
St Michael's Church is in Church Lane, North Rode, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
2.2 km · grade II listed church in North Rode, Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gawsworth
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 17 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · East Midlands (EMA), 71 km
- Liverpool → Gawsworth57 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gawsworth75 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £8–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Gawsworth75 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
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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 Gawsworth
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 Gawsworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Gawsworth
Gawsworth is 30 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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