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Lymm

Lymm is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, North West England, now in the Borough of Warrington.

Lymm
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The place

Lymm is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, North West England, now in the Borough of Warrington. It incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rush Green and Statham. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, the parish comprised a population of 12,660, with the built-up area having a population of 11,545.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lymm

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
    Bridgewater Canal

    The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.

    4 km · canal in North West England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John's Church, High Legh

    St John's Church is an active Anglican parish church in the village of High Legh, Cheshire, England. It is in the deanery of Knutsford, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the diocese of Chester.

    3.7 km · grade II listed timber-framed church in High Legh, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints Church, Thelwall

    All Saints Church is in the village of Thelwall, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in Thelwall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Chapel, High Legh

    St Mary's Chapel is a former Anglican parish church in the village of High Legh, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed church in High Legh, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church, Lymm

    St Mary's Church is the Anglican parish church of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, standing on a bank overlooking Lymm Dam. It is a grade II listed building.

    700 m · grade II listed church in Lymm, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's Church, Oughtrington

    St Peter's Church is the parish church of Lymm in Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    1 km · grade II listed church in Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Werburgh's Church, Warburton

    St Werburgh's Church is the name of two separate churches in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester, England. The older church is located to the west of the village, and may date back as early as the middle of the 13th century.

    2.6 km · church in Warburton, Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Warburton High Level Bridge

    Warburton is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, it lies on the south bank of the River Mersey.

    2.9 km · bridge in Warburton, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lymm Baptist Church

    Lymm Baptist Church is a Baptist church situated in the village of Lymm near Warrington, Cheshire, England. It stands on the A56 road.

    800 m · church building in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Chaigeley School

    Thelwall is a suburban village in the civil parish of Grappenhall and Thelwall, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is close to the Lymm junction of the M6 motorway.

    3 km · Grade II listed school building in Thelwall, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Lymm Dam

    Lymm Dam is an area of great beauty and tranquillity.

  2. 02
    Lymm Cross
  3. 03
    Thelwall Viaduct

    Large viaduct that carries the M6 over the Manchester Ship Canal (hence its height) the River Mersey plus various roads.

  4. 04
    Manchester Ship Canal

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Bridgewater Canal Walk
  2. 02
    High Legh Garden Centre & Miniature Railway

    Halliwell's Brow, High Legh, Knutsford (On A50),.

  3. 03
    Lymm Golf Club

    Whitbarrow Rd, office@lymmgolfclub.co.uk.

  4. 04
    High Legh Park Golf Course

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Church Inn

    Celebrity chef Aiden Byrne's restaurant near Lymm Dam.

  2. 02
    Lymm Fish & Chips

    Bridgewater Street.

  3. 03
    La Boheme
  4. 04
    The Green Dragon

    2 Mill Lane, WA13 9SB,.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Lymm

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 14 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 25 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 76 km
Stations
Lymm railway station, 600 m · Heatley & Warburton railway station, 2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lymm
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lymm
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lymm
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lymm

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    287 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    310 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    334 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lymm

Lymm is 19 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • High Leghvillage and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Thelwallvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Warburtonvillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.5 km
  • Hollins Greenvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, England3.5 km
  • Broomedgevillage in Cheshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Martinscroftvillage in Cheshire, United Kingdom2.9 km