Handforth

Worth seeing in and around Handforth

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.

1. 01
   Bramall Hall

   Bramall Hall is a manor house in the village of Bramhall, in Greater Manchester, England. Largely Tudor in design, its oldest parts date from the 14th century, with additions from the 16th and 19th centuries.

   4.2 km · Tudor manor house in Bramhall, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Geology of Alderley Edge

   One of the classic locations for the study of Triassic sandstones in the UK is at Alderley Edge in Cheshire. Numerous scientists from the early 19th century up to the present day have studied the area and it is a popular field site for universities around the UK. The sandstones also provide important insights into the nature of continental natural gas and petroleum reservoirs.

   5.8 km · geology of Alderley Edge, a hill in Cheshire, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow

   St Bartholomew's Church is in the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

   2.4 km · church in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Park Road Stadium

   The Ground Up Solutions Stadium is an association football stadium in Cheadle, Stockport, England. It is the home ground of North West Counties Football League club Cheadle Town F.C. and FA Women's National League club Cheadle Town Stingers.

   4.8 km · football stadium in Cheadle, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Abney Hall

   Abney Hall is a Grade II* listed Victorian house on Manchester Road in Cheadle, a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1842 and 1847 and extensively remodelled in the mid and late 19th century, it later became a civic building and now serves as offices within a public park.

   5.5 km · building in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   William Temple Memorial Church

   William Temple Memorial Church is a parish church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, dedicated to the bishop William Temple. It is a Grade II listed building, designed by George Pace in the Modernist style, and built in 1964–1965.

   4.4 km · church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Adlington Hall

   Adlington Hall is a country house near Adlington, Cheshire. The oldest part of the existing building, the Great Hall, was constructed between 1480 and 1505; the east wing was added in 1581.

   5.7 km · country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Philip's Church, Alderley Edge

   St Philip's Church is in the village of Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

   5.3 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Ullerwood Castle

   Ullerwood Castle is an early medieval castle, possibly a shell keep, in Ringway, a civil parish on the southern border of Manchester, England. Twelfth-century historian Roger of Hodwen included Hamon de Masci in list of rebels against Henry II in 1173 and wrote that he held the castles of Ullerwood Dunham.

   5.6 km · castle in Greater Manchester, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Pownall Hall

    Pownall Hall is a former country house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. It was remodelled in 1830 as "a red sandstone Georgian house dressed up in the Tudor style".

    2.7 km · country house in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Handforth

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 4 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 42 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 68 km

Stations

Manchester Airport, 3.9 km · Manchester Airport railway station, 4.1 km · Alderley Edge railway station, 5.3 km · Handforth railway station, 500 m · Wilmslow railway station, 2.6 km

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  51 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–7
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  66 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
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  84 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £10–13
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