Hazel Grove
Hazel Grove is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

Hazel Grove is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. The built-up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, had a population of 20,170 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Hazel Grove
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.
- 01Bramall 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.
3.7 km · Tudor manor house in Bramhall, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is 14.8 miles long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network.
3.9 km · canal in Derbyshire/Cheshire/Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints Church, Marple
All Saints Church is in Church Lane, Marple, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.7 km · church in Marple, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Anson Engine Museum
The Anson Engine Museum is situated on the site of the old Anson colliery in Poynton, Cheshire, England. It is the work of Les Cawley and Geoff Challinor who began collecting and showing stationary engines for a hobby.
3.3 km · museum based in Poynton, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St George's Church, Heaviley
St George's Church is in Buxton Road, Heaviley, an area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Stockport, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Heaviley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Chadkirk Chapel
Chadkirk Chapel is a Grade II* listed former chapel on Chadkirk Lane in Chadkirk, near Romiley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Parts of the building date from the 16th century, though worship on the site is thought to be older, and the chapel has undergone periods of neglect, rebuilding and restoration.
4 km · church and museum in Stockport, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Marple Junction
Marple Junction is the name of the canal junction where the Macclesfield Canal terminates and meets the Peak Forest Canal at Marple, Greater Manchester, England. The water of the two canal companies was kept apart by a stop lock in the narrows at the end of the later Macclesfield Canal, but this has long since been de-gated and the two canals run at the same level.
3.9 km · canal junction in the uk · Wikipedia - 08St George's Church, Poynton
St George's Church stands in the centre of the town of Poynton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Cheadle, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
3 km · grade II listed church in Poynton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Consider buying a combi-ticket for the council's four museums (all closed Monday) of Air Raid Shelters, Staircase House, Bramall Hall, and guided tour of Hat Works: adult £13, conc £10. The ticket is good for a single entry to each (but not to special exhibitions) without time limit.
- 01Hat Works
Wellington Mill, Wellington Rd South SK3 0EU,.
- 02Air Raid Shelters
During World War II, a network of tunnels and air-raid shelters was hewn out of the sandstone beneath town centre, big enough to shelter 6500.
- 03Staircase House
Entered via an unpromising modern building, but within is a well-restored house dating from the 15th century.
- 04Stockport Town Hall
Grandiose Edwardian wedding-cake built 1904–08 in white Portland stone - its architect Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas also built Belfast city hall in similar style.
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Things to do
- 01The Plaza
Mersey Square SK1 1SP (by Mersey Square), bookings), boxoffice@stockportplaza.co.uk.
- 02Garrick Theatre
Exchange Street, Wellington Road South, SK3 0EJ, enquiries@stockportgarrick.co.uk.
- 03Stockport County FC
Edgeley Park, Hardcastle Road SK3 9DD, ticketoffice@stockportcounty.com.
- 04Bruntwood Park
This park has an eighteen-hole par 3 pitch and putt course (Apr - Oct £6.90) that makes the most of the landscape and sits alongside the existing mature trees.
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Where to eat
Last Monsoon, 54 King Street West SK3 ODT (corner of Wood St),. Mon-Thu 4:30-11PM, Fri Sat 4:30PM-midnight, Sun 3-11PM. Reliable Indian restaurant, good portions and service. Rozafa, St Petersgate. Tue-Fri noon-2PM and 5-10:30PM, Sat 5-11PM, Sun 4-9:30PM. A good Greek Cypriot restaurant Stockport's main eating strip is along A6 Wellington Rd South.
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Getting to Hazel Grove
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 12 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 49 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km
- Stations
- Hazel Grove railway station, 800 m · Middlewood railway station, 2.5 km · Woodsmoor railway station, 2.4 km · Rose Hill Marple railway station, 3.3 km · Davenport railway station, 3.3 km
- Liverpool → Hazel Grove57 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hazel Grove59 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hazel Grove80 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £9–12
- 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 Hazel Grove
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 Hazel Grove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.
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Next door to Hazel Grove
Hazel Grove is 14 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Poyntontown in Cheshire, England, UK3 km
- High Lanevillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Offerton Greenvillage in the borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester900 m
- Davenportsuburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England3.5 km
- Offertonsuburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Chadkirkvillage in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom3.5 km