Holmes Chapel
Holmes Chapel is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) north of Crewe and 21 miles (34 km) south of Manchester; Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve lies 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the village and Goostrey lies to the north.
Holmes Chapel is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) north of Crewe and 21 miles (34 km) south of Manchester; Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve lies 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the village and Goostrey lies to the north. The population of the village was 6,700 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Holmes Chapel
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.
- 01St Luke's Church, Holmes Chapel
St Luke's Church is in the village of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England on the A50 road at its junction with the A535 road. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
400 m · church in Holmes Chapel, UK · Wikipedia - 02Brereton Hall
Brereton Hall is an Elizabethan prodigy house north of Brereton Green, next to St Oswald's Church in the civil parish of Brereton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
3.1 km · Grade I listed English country house in Cheshire East, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Blackden Hall
Blackden Hall is a country house to the northeast of the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It dates from the later part of the 16th century, and there have been later alterations.
3.6 km · Grade II* listed house in the civil parish of Goostrey, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Luke's Church, Goostrey
St Luke's Church is in the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton, in a combined benefice with St Peter, Swettenham.
2.9 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Peter's Church, Swettenham
St Peter's Church is in the village of Swettenham, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Oswald's Church, Brereton
St Oswald's Church is north of the village of Brereton Green, adjacent to Brereton Hall, in the civil parish of Brereton, Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Croco. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is described as "an unusually complete late Perpendicular church".
3.2 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01St Luke's Church
The present church originated about 1430 as a timber-framed building with a Perpendicular sandstone west tower.
- 02Twemlow Viaduct
1841 viaduct was designed for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company by George W.
- 03Jodrell Bank
Home of the Lovell Radio Telescope, listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO.
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Things to do
Dane Meadow (footpath running from Moreton Drive to the A50 by the bridge at Cranage), danemeadow@gmail.com. Dane Meadow is a 7-hectare area of land to the north of Holmes Chapel within the Dane Valley. It is a natural environment for walking dogs and casual walkers. The roadway provides access for disabled vehicles and a limited parking area near the river.
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Where to eat
- 01The Vicarage
Knutsford Road,.
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Getting to Holmes Chapel
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 17 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 36 km · East Midlands (EMA), 80 km
- Stations
- Holmes Chapel railway station, 600 m · Goostrey railway station, 2.8 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holmes Chapel85 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Holmes Chapel85 km · quickest by road, 2h · £11–14
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Holmes Chapel86 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Holmes Chapel
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 Holmes Chapel. 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 Holmes Chapel
Holmes Chapel is 32 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Goostreyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK3.2 km
- Swettenhamvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England3.5 km
- Breretoncivil parish in Cheshire, England3.5 km
- Cranagevillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK1.6 km
- Bradwallvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, UK4 km
- Twemlowcivil parish in Cheshire, England, UK2 km