Longsdon

Worth seeing in and around Longsdon

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
   Harrison Park

   Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football. The team, nicknamed "The Blues", play their home games at Harrison Park.

   2.7 km · football ground in Leek, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   All Saints Church, Leek

   All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in Leek, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

   2.9 km · church in Staffordshire Moorlands, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church of St Luke, Endon

   St Luke's Church is an Anglican church in Endon, Staffordshire, England, and in the Diocese of Lichfield. The building, dating originally from about 1720 and rebuilt in the 1870s, is Grade II listed.

   3.3 km · church in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Churnet Valley Railway

   The Churnet Valley Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway running through the Staffordshire Moorlands and the valley of the River Churnet in Staffordshire, England. It operates along part of the former Churnet Valley Line, which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1849, and the Waterhouses branch line which opened in 1905.

   3.6 km · heritage railway in England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Deep Hayes Country Park

   Deep Hayes Country Park is a country park in Staffordshire, England. It is about 3 miles south-west of Leek, a short distance south of the A53 road at Longsdon.

   1.4 km · country park in Staffordshire, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Parish Church of St Edward the Confessor

   St Edward the Confessor's Church is an active Anglican church in Leek, Staffordshire, England. The building, which dates back to the 13th century, is listed Grade II*.

   3.1 km · church in Leek, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Westwood Hall

   Westwood Hall is a former stately home in Leek, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

   1.8 km · Grade II listed house, now school building, in Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Cheddleton Flint Mill

   Cheddleton Flint Mill is a water mill situated in the village of Cheddleton in the English county of Staffordshire. The mill race takes water from the river Churnet.

   2.4 km · Flint Mill by the Caldon Canal in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Highfield

   Highfield is a cricket ground in Leek, Staffordshire. The ground is located just outside of the town along the Macclesfield Road, which itself forms part of the A523 Road.

   3.1 km · cricket ground in Leek, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Nicholson War Memorial

    The Nicholson War Memorial in Leek, Staffordshire, England is a 1925 war memorial. It was commissioned by local manufacturer Sir Arthur Nicholson and his wife Lady Marianne, née Falkner, in memory of their son Lieutenant Basil Lee Nicholson, who was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium, in 1915, at the age of 24; and in memory of all the other local men who died fighting in World War I. It now has plaques commemorating and naming 535 Leek and district men and women who died during World War I and World War II. It is one of the tallest war memorials in the country at 90 feet and was restored in 2010–2012.

    3.3 km · Grade II listed war memorial in Leek, Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Longsdon

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 32 km · East Midlands (EMA), 57 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 59 km

Stations

Cheddleton railway station, 3.4 km · Leek Brook railway station, 2.3 km · Endon railway station, 3.5 km · Wall Grange railway station, 1.1 km · Leek railway station, 2.3 km

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  63 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
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  71 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
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  69 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–10
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