Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. It is sited on the River Bollin and the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east; the town lies 16 miles (26 km) south of Manchester and 38 miles (61 km) east of Chester.
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Worth seeing in and around Macclesfield
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.
- 01Moss Rose
Moss Rose, known as the Leasing.com Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which is the home ground of Macclesfield F.C., and the former home of Macclesfield Town F.C., a club wound up in September 2020. The stadium, 1 mile south of the town centre, is on the west side of the A523 London Road.
800 m · association football ground in Macclesfield, England · Wikipedia - 02King Edward Street Chapel, Macclesfield
King Edward Street Chapel, Macclesfield is in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
1.2 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Christ Church, Macclesfield
Christ Church is a redundant Anglican church in Great King Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Macclesfield United Reformed Church
Macclesfield United Reformed Church is located in Park Green, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
900 m · grade II listed church in Macclesfield, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Paul's Church, Macclesfield
St Paul's Church is in Brook Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
1.1 km · grade II listed church in Macclesfield, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Peter's Church, Macclesfield
St Peter's Church is in Windmill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the deanery of Macclesfield.
900 m · grade II listed church in Macclesfield, Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Thomas' Church, Henbury
St Thomas' Church is in Church Lane in the village of Henbury, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
3.4 km · church in Henbury, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Henbury Hall, Cheshire
Henbury Hall is a country house about 1 mile southwest of the village of Henbury in Cheshire, England. The present house was built during the 1980s in New Classical style.
4.5 km · Grade II listed building in Henbury, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Catherine's Church, Over Alderley
St Catherine's Church, Over Alderley, also known as St Catherine's Church, Birtles, stands in an isolated position in Birtles Lane, near to Birtles Hall, in the civil parish of Over Alderley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
5.6 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St James' Church, Gawsworth
St James' Church is in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, and is sited near Gawsworth Hall. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
3.8 km · church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01The 108 Steps
- 02Macclesfield Cemetery
- 03St Michael and All Angels Church
Market Place (in centre of town, next to Town Hall on Mill Street opposite Chestergate), stmichaelscoordinator@gmail.com.
- 04Silk Museum and Paradise Mill
- 05Old Sunday School
Built in 1814 to provide a purpose-built school for over 2,000 local children, most of whom worked in the mills from the age of 6 onwards.
- 06King Edward Street Chapel
A Grade II* listed building dating from the 17th century.
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Things to do
Watch football at
- 01Macclesfield FC
Moss Rose Stadium, London Road SK11 7SP (on main A523 road 1 mile south of town centre), office@mtfc.co.uk.
- 02MADS
- 03Cinemac
Macclesfield’s answer to the lack of a “proper” cinema.
- 04Pictures in the Park @ Park Tavern
158 Park Lane (less than 10 minutes walk from town centre.).
- 05Riverside Park
Macclesfield Riverside Park Visitor Centre, Beechwood Mews, Tytherington, (off Manchester Road/Beech Ln), bollin@cheshireeast.gov.uk.
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Where to eat
- 01Aquila Bacaro
46 King Edward Street (SW corner of Westminster St intersection), info@aquilabacaro.co.uk.
- 02Cherry Blossom Bakery
6 Church Street (20 m S of Churchside on E side of street), cakes@cbbakery.co.uk.
- 03Chestergate Bistro
66 Chestergate (20 m W of Churchill Way on S side of street),.
- 04Maliwan
47-49 Sunderland St (15 m S of Pickford St on W side of street),.
- 05The New Shalimar
98–100 Chestergate (30 m E of Catherine St on S side),.
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Getting to Macclesfield
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 49 km · East Midlands (EMA), 71 km
- Stations
- Macclesfield railway station, 1.2 km · Prestbury railway station, 4.9 km · Macclesfield Hibel Road railway station, 1.6 km
- Liverpool → Macclesfield59 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Macclesfield73 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £8–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Macclesfield71 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £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 Macclesfield
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 Macclesfield. 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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Macclesfield is 27 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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