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Kidsgrove

Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Cheshire.

Kidsgrove
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The place

Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Cheshire. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a population of 26,276. Most of the town is in the Kidsgrove ward, whilst the western part is in Ravenscliffe.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kidsgrove

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
    Little Moreton Hall

    Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a manor house 4.5 miles south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–1508 and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610.

    4.4 km · moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton in England, built between about 1504 and 1610. · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Christ Church, Alsager

    Christ Church Alsager is in the town of Alsager, Cheshire, England. Its mission is to love God and to love others.

    4.8 km · Grade II* listed church in Alsager, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary Magdalene's Church, Alsager

    St Mary Magdalene's Church is in Crewe Road, Alsager, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.

    4.1 km · Grade II listed church in Alsager, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Scholar Green

    All Saints Church is in the village of Scholar Green in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.

    3.2 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    All Saints Church, Church Lawton

    All Saints’ Church stands on a mound close to Lawton Hall in the small village of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton.

    1.8 km · Grade II* listed church in Church Lawton, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Rode Hall

    Rode Hall, a Georgian country house, is the seat of the Wilbraham family, members of the landed gentry in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. The estate, with the original timber-framed manor house, was purchased by the Wilbrahams from a cousin, Randle Rode in 1669.

    3.3 km · English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Queen's Theatre

    The Queen's Theatre is a theatre building in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England. It is situated in Wedgwood Street in the town centre.

    5.7 km · music venue and theatre in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England; built as town hall and theatre · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Biddulph Town Hall

    Biddulph Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Biddulph, a town in Staffordshire, in England. It currently serves as the meeting place of Biddulph Town Council and as a venue for concerts and other public events.

    5.8 km · municipal building in Biddulph, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Great Moreton Hall

    Great Moreton Hall is a former country house in Moreton cum Alcumlow near Congleton, in Cheshire, England, less than a mile from its better-known near namesake Little Moreton Hall. Designed by Edward Blore, it was built in 1841 by Manchester businessman George Holland Ackers, to replace a large timber-framed building that had been the home of the Bellot family since 1602.

    5 km · Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Moreton cum Alcumlow, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Knypersley Hall

    Knypersley Hall is an 18th-century Georgian style country mansion at Biddulph, Staffordshire, England. It is protected as a Grade II* listed building.

    5.3 km · country house in Biddulph, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kidsgrove

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 29 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 49 km · East Midlands (EMA), 68 km
Stations
Kidsgrove railway station, 200 m · Alsager railway station, 3.4 km · Longport railway station, 5.5 km · Mow Cop and Scholar Green railway station, 3.6 km · Black Bull railway station, 4.3 km
  • Liverpool → Kidsgrove
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kidsgrove
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kidsgrove
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kidsgrove

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 Kidsgrove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Congleton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    334 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    370 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    395 km

If you know how people move in Kidsgrove – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kidsgrove

Kidsgrove is 44 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Alsagertown and civil parish in Cheshire East, England3.9 km
  • Biddulphtown and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, UK5.8 km
  • Church Lawtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England1.8 km
  • Rode Heathvillage in Cheshire East, United Kingdom4 km
  • Moreton cum Alcumlowcivil parish in Cheshire East, England5.2 km
  • Newbold Astburyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, England5.9 km